Inventor Detail View Hide Fence Boundary Visibility

[Anonymous]

When creating a detail view inventor gives the user a choice of fence shapes,this is fine but is it possible to hide the fence or make  the fence invisible.

Sometimes when space is limited it would be nice to do this.

Any suggestions

kelly.young has edited your subject line for clarity: fence visibility

[kelly.young]

Hello @Anonymous it sounds like you are trying to hide the circle boundary created from a detail view.

Do you want the letter and a leader pointing to the area to remain? How do you want the detail location notated?

If you just want it gone, you can create a layer, select the circle and change it to this layer, then make in not visible.

You could also make the layer white so it blends into the page but that is not advised as a best solution.

Is that what you were looking for? Hope that helps!

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[Anonymous]

Hello Kelly

Thanks for the solution,however its not the circle i need to hide but the squigly boundary around the generated view.

Please see attachement.

Regards

[kelly.young]

@Anonymous that is a bit more troublesome to only hide the Detail View Boundary.

You can setup a Detail View and make the Options > Smooth Cutout Shape and Full Boundary checked, then change the layer properties and turn off visibility to hide, but that also affects the Reference Boundary on the base view, which I'm assuming you still want shown.

What you are looking for is some sort of iLogic/API that calls to the Detail View and suppresses visibility of that Boundary line only.

I'm not sure if you can isolate that part of the detail or not.

Will ask around my end and see if I can find if it is possible.

EDIT:

After a bit of thought, a workaround would be:

• Copy and Paste the view and set to detail scale
• Create a Sketch on this view with a shape encompassing the detail area
• Use Place Views > Modify > Crop
• Create another sketch on the base view for the detail reference shape and label

Admittedly I don't like this, but if it is a one-off case this might be acceptable for you as you can control the boundary line much easier.

Again, this doesn't link to the reference shape or label which is the whole point, so not sure if that helps at all.