Creating a Section View (Autodesk Inventor 2013)

This tutorial displays how to create a Section View in the Drawing Sheet.

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Transcription of Video

1. Create a new Drawing sheet with metric template.
2. Activate the Base View command from the marking menu.
3. Open the Housing Fixture (.ipt) part file.
4. Set the View Scale of the base view 3:1 from the drop down list.
5. Click the toggle visibility button.
6. Enter the text FRONT VIEW in the ‘View Identifier’ field.
7. Click OK to place the view.
8. Save the drawing sheet with the name Housing Fixture.
9. Activate Section View from the Create Panel and select the Base View to define it as the parent view.
10. Hover the mouse pointer over parent view to find the dotted inference line which defines the Center of the Base View and click to start creating section line.
11. Click Continue button from the right click context menu, Section View dialogue box appears. From here View identifier name and scale can be edited.
12. Click in the design window to place the section view.
13. Save the file.

Creating Base View and Projected View (Autodesk Inventor 2013)

This video tutorial displays how to create Base View and the Projected View along with View name and Scale label in a Drawing Sheet.

 

 

 

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Transcription of Video

1. Here a blank drawing sheet is open, using the ANSI (mm).idw template.
2. Right click in the graphics window and activate the ‘Base View’ command.
3. Drawing View dialog box is visible in the design window.
4. Click the ‘Open an existing file’ icon.
5. Open the Mount Bracket.ipt file.
6. In the Orientation field, there are different types of pre-defined view orientations that can be placed in the drawing page.
7. Front view is selected by default.
8. By default the view scale is 1:1 of the model which can be changed from here.
9. If you hover the mouse over the drawing sheet, a preview of the Mount Bracket will be visible with the front view in the design window.
10. Click the left mouse button at the bottom of the page. Then move your cursor upward and left side from the base view followed by clicking the left mouse button.
11. At last, move the cursor on the upper right corner of the design window for placing the isometric view.
12. Right click in the graphics window and click Create button in the context menu to generate the desired views.
13. Save the drawing sheet with the name Mount Bracket.
14. Double click the Base view to edit it.
15. Click the ‘Toggle Label Visibility’ icon to show the View name and Scale label on the drawing sheet.
16. Click OK to close the dialog box.
17. In the same way edit the three other projected views.