Have a question or possible OOPS.  I have never realized that was like this, just never found it.   I have been running Inventor since it was originally created and never saw this before until this morning…It’s in Inventor 2023.5.1 and 2025.2.1....Don't know how I never found this.   In an Inventor IDW…..Create an assembly View and then a Detail view.    Looks good so far….       Now change the Design view for the Base View…..WAIT…the Detail view does not match anymore!!!       BASE     DETAIL     What in the world!!!!   Why does it give you the option to change a detail view Design view from its BASE?   If you are not aware of this, you can change a design View of the base, the detail will not match its base……😬😬   You have to physically double click on the Detail view and change its Design View to match also…..!!!!   BTW, just found this is available in the Projected view also…😬   ================================   SO, Is there a way to have a selector box/button to always Lock them...a choice....like you do for the Style.       OR can you put an ICON in the browser showing me that they no longer match.   Thank you in advance....   Show More

My company create multi-sheet drawing.  When we make a section\detail in a view, the resulting section\detail can sometime be on a different sheet.    Right now the user has to manual enter this page it was from.  While we can use ParentSheet to have the sheet automatic update as we add\remove sheets, most users don't know how to do this.   I would like it is Autodesk allowed us to set up our templates so that when we placed a section\detail it would call out what page it was from.     As a stretch goal, we would love if it allowed us to call out the grid reference of that cut.    Show More

in an assembly you can select an entire folder or component pattern and instant toggle visibility.  in an drawing view you have to expand the folder or the pattern and manually select each part.  make both enviroments behave the same!! Assembly: Drawing view:   Show More

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.   Original Author: kpapjim   Show More

When producing orientation drawing for tanks etc it gets messy very quickly using conventional angular dimensions. That's why there is a need for angular ordinate dimensions currently I do this using the ordinate dimension then over riding the value then importing the parameter needed so its linked but this is time consuming. Please add   Original Author: Ben-Cornelius   Show More

Original Title: Custom section marks In order to follow my company's standards, I need to draw my own section mark lines. (See attached picture.)   In AutoCAD, we had a LISP routine to automate it - there were three clicks to input points. First click gave us the starting point, the end of the line with the circle. The 2nd click gave us the other end of the line. The 3rd click decided the direction the arrow pointed. After that, it prompted us for the section label ("A") and the sheet number ("S1").   I've figured out how to make the circles with numbers with prompted entries, but don't know how to draw the line and arrows without them being a fixed predetermined length and direction in a sketched symbol.   This would need to input similar to a leader line with multiple input points, which from what I can tell, sketched symbols are a single input point.   I really don't need for it to pull in the sheet number or section label automatically - I'm fine with manually inputting them with a prompt.     Original Author Anonymous from ‎03-13-2013 Show More

It would be nice to have a Find and Replace tool that would allow us to look for text values in the active file type.   Drawing file - search iProperties, Note text, View Label text, Dimension text, Table text, etc. Assembly files - search iProperties, Sketch text, Browser text, etc. Part files - search iProperties, Sketch text, Browser text, etc. Original Author: Curtis_Waguespack Show More

Why is it not possible to directly place two different partslist for example "Structured" and "Parts only" directly in the same drawing, but only with a trick to copy the partslist created in a other drawing into the active drawing? This would be a great addition to my opinion for future releases of Autodesk Inventor.   Show More

This would provide a nice time savings over the current methodology of needing to first drag the arrowhead to its desired new location, and then dragging the actual balloon to its desired new location. Just allow dragging of drawing BOM balloons in one singular operation as shown, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally: Show More

To calculate the total weight in a part list, you have to activate the "Group" function. Using the key, you can determine the property according to which the grouping should take place. With this grouping, however, all columns are grouped and the totals are formed, as in the figure below in the columns "Pos.", "Stk.", "Material" and "Ges. gewicht". However, it is desirable that only the total weight is grouped/summed and not all other columns.   In the part list it should be possible to suppress single cells. At the moment it is only possible to suppress the hole row. It would be gate if you add the possibility to suppress one (or two or more) specific cell in addition to the possibility to suppress the hole row.   Show More

  The current workflow for adding annotations with iLogic is quite good, but it is not always intuitive how to get the exact result concerning placement, addended text, etc.    It would be outstanding if we could right click on annotations such as dimensions, balloons, etc. and extract the code to add/create them just as they appear on the drawing, something as shown in these images and code examples.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Dim Sheet_1 = ThisDrawing.Sheets.ItemByName("Sheet:1") Dim VIEW2 = Sheet_1.DrawingViews.ItemByName("VIEW2") Dim genDims = Sheet_1.DrawingDimensions.GeneralDimensions Dim Face0 = VIEW2.GetIntent("Face0") Dim Face1 = VIEW2.GetIntent("Face1") Dim Point1 = VIEW2.SheetPoint(1.2, 0.5) Dim linDim1 = genDims.AddLinear("Dimension 1", Point1 , Face0, Face1) linDim1.NativeEntity.Text.FormattedText = "<DimensionValue/> OA"                             Dim Sheet_1 = ThisDrawing.Sheets.ItemByName("Sheet:1") Dim VIEW1 = Sheet_1.DrawingViews.ItemByName("VIEW1") Dim Pt1 = VIEW1.SheetPoint(1.4, 0.4) Dim Face = VIEW1.GetIntent("BBBB", "Face1", intent := PointIntentEnum.kMidPointIntent, nearPoint := Pt1) Dim balloon1 = Sheet_1.Balloons.Add("Balloon1", {Pt1}, Face)                     Show More

Original author: Anonymous      Hyperlink text in drawings. Allow text in dwgs (and also subsequent dwfs) to be hyperlinked by pressing CTRL and clicking. Show More

INVENTOR - SECTIONS IN DRAWING (idw) In practice, it looks like this: - In the drawing, the following are always Section: Bearings, Seals, Retaining rings, KM nuts, MB Washers, profiles (machine spindles are used) - Not Section in the drawing: Bolts, Nuts, Washers, Pins, Ribs Allow users to customize the section of the part according to real practice.   Here's how Inventor behaves: Components have different options for displaying sections. In points, we will list several options that affect the sections in the drawing. 1. Each custom component has a Section by default. Depending on your needs, you can set for different components whether they will be displayed in the drawing in section or not in the drawing. 2. Content Center components are affected by other display options and document settings do not apply. So even if you have selected the option =Participate in assembly and layout Section = the content center setting is superior to the mentioned option. Below is an example of a profile. Otherwise, fasteners are not Section, screw, nut, washer. Not all parts inserted = As standard with content center. (unfortunately there is no option in OC to set the part inserted as a standard that would be Section – it is for adding to IDEASTATION, there could be a third option As Standard IN THE Section). Profile embedded as Regular or As Standard = This setting is superior to others 2.1 Profile inserted as = As Custom Display in drawing = Section This setting is superior to others 2.2 Profile inserted as = As Standard Display in drawing is = No Section (None) This setting is superior to others   3. Another way to influence the Section is to set Parts Only in the filters and use the cursor to mark the component in the workspace or in the tree (model browser) to mark the assembly or component. 4. The last option is to set the cut for everything This option is unusable because it Sections everything, even screws, or vice versa, it cuts nothing and you would have to manually mark what you actually want to Section or not. Show More

In Schweißbaugruppen ordnen wir Bauteile häufig in Relation (Abstand etc.) zu anderen Bauteilen oder Kanten an. Leider kann man diese Abstandsmaße beim erstellen der Zeichnung nicht abrufen und muss diese manuell einfügen. Dasselbe trifft auf gemusterte Anordnungen von Bauteilen in Baugruppen zu. Die zugrundeliegenden Maße sind als Parameter in der Baugruppe hinterlegt, warum sind die über "Modellanmerkungen Abrufen" nicht zugänglich? Dadurch würde einiges an manueller Arbeit und Fehlerquellen wegfallen. Show More

  Please add the ability to save or preset the user-defined custom colors in the Windows color dialogs in the drawing environment. Currently, custom colors are not retained after a restart of Inventor. The Edge Properties in particular are often modified with custom colors.       Show More

Für Kunden mache ich eine maßgeschneiderte Zeichnung mit einem anderen Namen als wie die Dateiname heisst. Ein Eintrag des Namens gelangt in die iProperties. Es wäre toll, wenn man diese Zeichnung direkt im gleichen Verzeichnis öffnen könnte. Show More

I'd like to make it possible to have the same subassembly in different assemblies and have a different status in the BOM structure (e.g. in one it should be normal, in another as inseparable, and in the next as phantom.) At the moment, when I change it in the Bill of materials in one assembly, it changes for all assemblies where this subassembly is used. Show More

Problem: The scale of the hatching changes relative to the parent view and has to be changed manually (or with iLogic Rule) each time. According to the ISO and DSTU standards given in the textbooks, the hatching should be the same as in other images of this part.   When you build a section with a scale, the hatching is performed correctly (just like on the parent view). The main problem is that when we use scaling views, we should have the same approach to hatching. Now (including the latest version of IV2025.1), when building sections with scaling in/out, the hatching scale does not change (A-A), but when building a hatching element in Detail View (B), it does (see Fig. below).   This difference cannot be explained; the hatching scale in the enlarged views should be the same. The previous request at https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/auto-scaled-hatches/idi-p/5568621 was Archived with comment “… it is unclear what the request is …” Show More

When placing views on a drawing I think it would help if clicking the orientation cube would flip the view to the other side of the cube. E.g. when the front view is shown, clicking twice in the middle of the cube would flip it to the back view. I think the time saved would quickly add up. Show More