locking invetor .idw views

[darren_gray]

After completing a model in Inventor consisting of assemblies and sub assemblies and then completing the drawings is there a way of locking what view state you have in your (.idw) drawing views (ie: items visibilty turned on and off) so that any additions to assemblies will not automatically show through and destroy your drawing set out, equiring extra work going through a whole drawing set turning that

part/assembly off where it is not needed.

[Guest KArthur1]

Inventor can work the way that you describe, but it can be very frustrating when parts are being added to an iam and you have spent a bunch of time turningoff the visibility of parts in the idw.

If you will use associative view reps on your idw, then you will not have to go thru and turn on/off the visibility of the part in the idw. You set what parts you want to be visible in the VR in the iam. Also after you get it the way that you want, you can "lock" the VR in the iam. This will prevent any new parts that get added to the iam from being in the VR. These new parts will show un in the BOM (which is what you want), but they will not be in the associative views.

[darren_g]

Thank you very much for your response. I have tried it as you say and it works a treat. I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to producing drawings in Inventor. Cheers