Drawing Views

Understand the wide range of component and assembly views available in Inventor, how to configure them, and the relationships between views.

Topics in this section

About Drawing View Fundamentals
Explains the base view, projected view, section view and other view types, as well as other options such as breaking, cropping, or slicing a view.
To Create a Base View and Projected Views
How to create these fundamental views, and to create drawing views from a model file.
To Create a Flat Pattern Drawing View of a Sheet Metal Part
The flat pattern view is useful for fabrication, and is the only view that supports sheet metal annotations.
To Create or Edit Drawings of iAssemblies
How to create views that reference an iAssembly member, and how to switch the view to a different iAssembly member.
To Work with Drawing Views
You can edit views, specify how they appear, and create drawing views of sketches and sheet metal parts.
To Align and Rotate Drawing Views
How to change the orientation of a dependent view in relation to its parent view.
To Create and Edit an Auxiliary View
You create an auxiliary view by projecting from an edge or line in a parent view.
To Work with Drawings for Large Assemblies
How to avoid the performance degradation that can occur when working with drawings of large assemblies.
To Work with Representations in Drawing Files
Options for managing the relationship between representations and drawing views, to achieve various process benefits.
To Work with Surfaces in Drawing Views
How to show and hide surfaces for best results in drawing views and to support annotations.
To Show or Hide Work Features in Drawing Views
You can recover work features from the model into a drawing view and use them as data, or for annotation purposes.
About Sketches in Drawings
A drawing sketch can contain text and 2D geometry such as lines and arcs.
To Add and Edit a Hatch to Drawing Sketches
You can select multiple closed profiles in a sketch, and apply the Fill/Hatch to all of them.
To Project Geometry from a Drawing View to a Sketch
Guidelines and procedure for creating a sketch associated with a model view.
To Create and Edit a Draft View
How to work with a draft view or sketch associated with a drawing or model.
About Section Views
Describes section view settings, how to constrain and align these views, and how to control their appearance.
To Create a Breakout
You can remove a defined area of material to expose obscured features in an existing drawing view.
About Detail Views
Detail views provide circular and rectangular shapes of detail profile; You can select the Jagged (the default type for both shapes) or Smooth cutout lines.
To Work with Overlay Views
Create Overlay drawing views using positional representations to show an assembly in multiple positions in a single view. You can also create an Overlay to emphasize certain parts or components by showing them as solid lines or shaded, while the rest of the components appear dashed. This method does not require a positional representation to create an Overlay.
To Work with Break View Operations
How to display regions of interest in a component view and break (not display) the view in regions without significant details.
To Work with Crop View Operations
Crop operations clip drawing views with a defined boundary.

Parent topic: Drawings