iViews

iViews
Envisage UK Ltd

When an Inventor model contains configurators such as iLogic, the drawing view scales normally have to be altered such that the updated model views fit the drawing border correctly.

This app allows the user to create ‘viewports’ for drawing views to fit inside, such that when a model alters, that view will auto-scale to within the viewport.

Viewports can be created on Base views, Isometric views and detail scale views.

To create a viewport, click on the “Setup iViews” button (available from the TOOLS ribbon).

You will be presented with an option to “Update this view on save”. If this is ticked then the viewport will auto-scale the view to fit the viewport on drawing save, otherwise selecting one of the two commands “Update sheet” or “Update all sheets” will auto-scale the view to fit the viewport.

Select “continue”, you will then be asked to select the view you wish to attach the viewport to, finally drag a rectangle to create the new viewport window. Once this is done, either save the drawing or click on one of the “Update sheet” buttons to auto-scale the view to this new viewport.

You will notice that the viewport is created as a draft view in the browser, with the same name as the view it is attached to. The “*” at the end of the draft view name means that it will update when a drawing is saved (as per the option dialog selection). If you remove the “*”, then the view will only update on selection of one of the update buttons. The reverse is true.

Source

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