Improvement for Inventor Forum - parts and assemblies submitted for forum questions get viewed by Autodesk Viewer

[wfajber]

Many times I see forum questions looking for help with part or assemblies. The part or assembly is attached (much of the time, anyway). Many of the questions would attract more respondents if there is some way to see the component that they are talking about.

For a proper answer, you have to open the part in Inventor. There is no question. But I would be more willing to do that if I could see the part lined up with my interests/skills/knowledge base. 

My idea is that the Inventor Forums have a way to submit the part in such a way it gets stored with a generated link to Autodesk Viewer. Then you can see the question better. For most people that would trigger a increased desire to help. If the link expires after one/two/three months, there is no loss of information because the part and assembly files are still there.

[DRoam]

Great idea!

[Anonymous]

I want to see finer detail in the explorer tab.  Right now I get "sketch" as an atomic item.  But a sketch is a composite of many features.  I would like to "expand" the sketch node and see the list of features.  This, among other benefits, would save me having to do guesswork on "Select other".  I could just select it in the model panel, and delete it or do other important operations to it, such as dimension it, without having to deal with the clutter of all the other features of the sketch.  Note that projected geometries would let me find where they were projected from; I could change line properties, dimensions, construction line, and pretty much anything else I felt like changing without having to play guessing games with the evolution of the sketch.