Inventor can create these types of drawing views:
- Base view. The first view you create. Subsequent views are derived from this view. A base view can be used to create a projected view, an auxiliary view, a section view, and a detail view.
- Projected view. An orthographic or isometric view that is generated from the base view or any other existing view.
- Auxiliary view. A view that is projected perpendicular to a selected edge or line.
- Section view. A view created by sketching a line that defines a plane used to cut through a part (or assembly in Inventor). The view represents the surface area of the cut. You can create a section view through an entire assembly or exclude components from sectioning. To exclude a component, select the component in the parent view, and then clear the section option before creating the section view.
- Detail view. An enlarged view of a portion of another drawing view. Detail views are used to provide clearer, more precise annotation.
- Overlay view. A single view created from multiple positional representations. Overlay views show an assembly in various positions.
- Draft view. A view that contains one or more associated 2D sketches. It is not created from a 3D part.
You can break, break out, crop, or slice drawings:
- Break. Reduces the size of a longer model by removing or "breaking" irrelevant portions. Dimensions that span the break reflect the correct length.
- Break Out. Removes a defined area of material to expose obscured parts (not available in Inventor LT) or features in an existing drawing view.
- Crop. Provides control over the view boundary in an existing drawing view.
- Slice. Produces a zero-depth section from an existing drawing view.