Overlay a View Rep. or Weld/Machine State on a weldment drawing view.

[SMGordon]

In an .idw, allow an overlay on weldments to be able to show different view representations or a different weldment state (weld, machine, prep).

Quite often it's very helpful to show a phantomed outline of what the pre-machined weldment looks like on the machining drawing. As well, on simple weldments or things with only a small amount of machining, the welding and machining drawings could be combined to save making a drawing.

I'm working on a drawing right now that I'm trying to show how I want a customer's existing weldment modified by cutting away pieces, and having what it looks like pre-modifications overlaid in reference lines would make what actual work needs to get done much more clear. I could also specify "how much material to cut off" rather than "how much is left."

[Anonymous]

I cannot believe this doesn't exist. 

You seem to be able to create a view representation with the welds visibility off, but as for the machining, there isn't a way to turn off the visibility.

Doesn't suit well for the casting environment. *thumbs down*

[inv.ideareview]

We’re archiving this Idea because it's been on the board for well over a year and hasn't received many votes from the community. If you want to raise it again and try to gain more support, you're welcome to do so.

[steve_lindley]

Please bring this idea back to the table! Our work involves a lot of weldments, but many of our legacy drawings were created in AutoCAD and always showed the difference between fabricated and machined. We are spending a lot of time converting legacy drawings from AutoCAD to Inventor, to ensure our 3D models match the drawings, but this is one feature we can't replicate easily. The only work around is to create a sketch on the drawing views, which obviously does not update with changes to the model and is a duplication of our work in the model and hence is inefficient. There might not have been many votes here but there are plenty of posts asking for help to do this on the other forums. Surely that has to count for something? 

[cshoemaker33]

It seems strange to me that the staff chose to archive this.  I am not actively searching for tools I need and then voting on them to be added - that would be doing your job for you.  I patiently wait for logical things to be added but when i get to googling them they are archived - so frustrating - it seems like time and time again Inventor is sitting on their hands or don't understand the job their program needs to be doing.   There are logical things we need to draft and design. LOGICAL ONES LIKE THIS SHOULD BE ADDED  without my need to scour your forums and vote or type out such messages.  Thanks for your consideration to not put the work on the community.

[Mikael.Bech]

This would still be neat to have in the year 2021...

[suppfalt]

I have a customer wanting this exact ability for their weldments. If this is possible for positional reps, it should be possible for weldment states.

Please get this added to the functionality of the software.

[lbrownWN42X]

This would be an awesome feature.

Currently, I have to create a sketch in the drawing to show the material to be removed. This sketch is not associated to the model and tedious to create.

If I can make an overlay of a positional representation, why can I not make an overlay of a model state?

Please add this capability.

[SMGordon]

In Inventor 2023 you can now overlay different model states, so you can create a "weldment" model state by supressing all your machining features. Seems silly to me that you need to do this and I would prefer what I described in my original post but I think it's at least a reasonable work around (I just tested this but have not used this method for real in a real drawing set yet as we just upgraded last week).

....but you can't apply an overlay to a section view so we're still limited that way 😫

[suppfalt]

That works much better than making a sketch on the drawing.
Thanks for the feedback.

[lbrownWN42X]

Thank you for the help.

We are still running 2022.

I am talking to my boss now about upgrading.

Thanks again.