To Create and Edit a Draft View

How to work with a draft view or sketch associated with a drawing or model.

What's New: 2023.1

A draft view can be "empty" because it does not require a model representation and can contain multiple sketches. You can add a draft view to an existing drawing or create a drawing with a draft view containing AutoCAD data.

An empty view is placed and the associated sketch is activated so you can begin sketching.

You can scale a draft view or sketch, unlike a regular 2D sketch. If you copy geometry from a draft sketch to a regular sketch, the copied geometry appear with the scale as 1:1 in the regular sketch.

When you open an AutoCAD file as an Autodesk Inventor drawing, a new file is created with a sheet that contains a draft sketch. Geometry from the AutoCAD file is placed in the draft sketch. (You can add a draft sketch even if you do not have AutoCAD data.)

1. Start with an active drawing, and add or activate the sheet on which to place the view.

2. On the ribbon, click Place Views tab Create panel Draft .

3. In the Draft View dialog, set the label and scale for the view.

4. To show the view label on the drawing, click Toggle Label Visibility.

5. To Edit draft views, do any of the following:

   • To edit the view identifier, scale, or to change the view label visibility, select the draft view, right-click, and click Edit View.
   • To edit the view geometry, select the sketch, right-click, and click Edit.
   • To edit the view label in the Format Text dialog, select the view label, right-click, and click Edit View Label.
   • To edit the view label Text Style, select the view label, right-click, and click Edit Text Style.
   • To copy the view, right-click the view or browser node and select Copy.
   • To paste the view in the current sheet, right-click and select Paste. You can move the view, just click and drag in the sheet.
   • To paste the view in another sheet in the same drawing, activate the target sheet, then right-click and select Paste to place the view.
   • To paste the view in another drawing (new or existing), activate the target drawing and sheet, then right-click and select Paste to place the view.
   • To move a draft view to another sheet, click and drag the view browser node and drop it on the target sheet.