Change front view plane to Top view plane in drafting view preferences

[samuel9838CD7]

Hi, 

I was wondering if there is any possibility of changing the following setting:

in the drawing template, style editor -> view preferences -> front view plane, the first face which, per default, gets placed in the base view of the drawing is the front view. 

Is there the possibility of changing that automatically? Meaning every time I create a drawing the first base view I get will be the top view? 

I ask this since I'm automating the creation of the drawings of some parts, but I'm not able to get this done. 

Thank you in advance

[WCrihfield]

Hi @samuel9838CD7.  I am not exactly sure how you would want to automate this, but you can definitely change that setting by Inventor API code.  Here is a simple example accessing that setting.

Dim oDDoc As DrawingDocument = ThisDrawing.Document
Dim oDSMgr As DrawingStylesManager = oDDoc.StylesManager
oDSMgr.ActiveStandardStyle.FrontViewPlane = FrontViewPlaneEnum.kFrontViewFromModel

However, there aren't that many intuitive options to choose from.  Its only options are defined in the FrontViewPlaneEnum.