Drawing View Orientation of Base View Programatically

[Andrew_Burnett]

We have legs that are on a cylindrical tank.  The legs are at different angles and I want to place a view on the drawing with the cut portion shown for dimensioning.  I have everything working but I need to get the view correct for the dimension to hold.  Example.  If the leg is at 45 degrees from the XY plane it would be in the front / Right orientation.  I have not been able to find a way to have it select that orientation to get the view correct on the drawing.

[JelteDeJong]

Have you seen this blog post "Creating a drawing from scratch with the Inventor API".

https://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2012/06/creating-a-drawing-from-scratch-with-the-invent... 

[Andrew_Burnett]

I reviewed that and have seen it before but can't find in the link where you can show the view angle that I want for the detail view.  The image that was attached to it will show the view I am looking to get.

[WCrihfield · Accepted solution]

Sounds like you would have to use lines similar to these when setting up your view.

oViewOrientation = ViewOrientationTypeEnum.kCurrentViewOrientation
'Or
oViewOrientation = ViewOrientationTypeEnum.kSavedCameraViewOrientation
'Or if you already have another view to project from, you could try the
oViewOrientation = ViewOrientationTypeEnum.kArbitraryViewOrientation
'Other than that you would probably have to do a two view set-up using
oViewRotation = Pi/4
'Then turn the first view off

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[Andrew_Burnett]

I used the arbitrary view orientation .  Needed to add the line of code to use the camera.  Thank you for all your help and quick response.

Dim oCamera As Camera = LegDesignView.Camera

View4 = Sheet1.DrawingViews.AddBaseView(aAssemblyDoc, oPoint4, 1, ViewOrientationTypeEnum.kArbitraryViewOrientation,
DrawingViewStyleEnum.kHiddenLineDrawingViewStyle, , oCamera)

Thank you and Code on!!