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Many times when a project consists of several sheets and need to refer from one to the other would be easier if there is an option for simultaneous viewing all sheets.
In many cases where we have 100 plus sheets in a drawing file, it takes a long time to click through the sheets in order to find what we are looking for. AutoCAD has a nice popup browser that allows you to preview the sheets and click which one you want. Upon selection, that particular sheet is then activated.
Could it be a possibility that something similar could be implemented in Inventor? A preview when the mouse is hovered over the browser node would suffice?
Yeah I made a function a while ago that will rename all of the browser nodes to the part / assembly on that sheet however, we mostly never try to remember the name as such, visual identity is much better. I can see a part and immediately know what it is whereas, if I see a name, it could be one of many parts in the assembly.....
Would it be acceptable to you if this "sheet display list" was generated used a thumbnail of each sheet as available in memory? Meaning it would leverage an image of a last saved state, as opposed to a current or in edit or as last modified state? Thanks in advance for any feedback here. -Dan
@dan_szymanski, it sounds to me like you're interpreting this idea as a request for sheet thumbnails, which isn't how I interpret it. My interpretation is that this idea is requesting simultaneous side-by-side viewing of more than one sheet. And in my opinion, that need would be more than sufficiently met by the implementation of the multiple-window capability that's been requested many times before in many different forms.
If we could open a couple of secondary Inventor windows, and then duplicate the drawing document tab (as we can currently do now with View --> Windows --> New) and drag it to those secondary windows, then switch to whichever sheet is desired in each window, that would address the need raised in this idea.
As for the update state, it would be fine with me if it worked like duplicate document tabs do right now--updates on all document tabs (in all windows) are deferred until they are switched to and made the currently Active tab. In other words, only one tab can be active at a time across all windows. This would be an acceptable (even preferred) limitation to me.
Regarding drawing sheet thumbnails/previews, there are a couple of request specifically for that: Drawing sheet thumbnail view, Drawing Sheet Preview. But those are unique requests from this one in my opinion.
Great idea, but it would be much better, if all drawing sheets are updated at the same time. Since multithreading is enabled for drawing updating, this should not be a very time-consuming feature...
At times, I need to compare sheets. I solve this now by taking a screen shot, moving that to another monitor and then viewing the other sheet. Having this ability would be beneficial
@DRoam is exactly right. This would be a great enhancement. The team I'm working with rarely uses more than 5 sheets, but we do work in a hybrid Manufacturing/Architectural environment where it is very common to place details on subsequent sheets. It would be great to have the ability open and view multiple sheets of the same drawing at the same time. Many people resort to opening multiple instances of Inventor to do this, which causes lots of problems with our automation and Vault. This option is a need to eliminate that practice.
Compare sheets. Hmmm i wonder. I can already get the view of a sheet using apprentice combined with a snapshot function to get the view as an image so i wonder if there is any worth in the following-
Select the sheets you want to compare
get the snapshot of each as an image
loop each image by pixel to get the pixel color.
if they dont match, change the pixel color to red
show the result in a window.
could be done, ive done some pixel work before where the color was changed
When I'm exporting inventor drafting file to AutoCAD file containing several sheets, each sheet is exported into individual AutoCAD files.
I'm then opening each autodesk files, copying each drawing, pasting it in a single AutoCAD sheet.
If I done some modifications in my 3D and updating it in drafting, then I'm again exporting all sheets into individual AutoCAD files, copying it, pasting it again & again.
The work for copying & pasting takes more than modification in 3D and drafting
If you can make a method that while exporting the inventor drafting to AutoCAD file all drawing sheets should come in a single AutoCAD sheet as same as above thumbnail formet, then it will be very easier.
