AutoCAD Inventor :: Can't Use Model Sketches Within A Drawing View Sketch?

Apr 16, 2012

I can "Get Model Sketch" to make it appear visible in a drawing view. But I can find no way to use these "edges" or "lines" or "entities" or whatever they are, later in a drawing view sketch. No way to project them from Model Sketch to Drawing View sketch. I can attach leaders and dimensions to these Model Sketch entitites but I can find no way to use them in a sketch owned by the drawing view. Am I missing something?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Cannot Get Model Sketches On All Models In Drawing?

Nov 26, 2013

I am making a control console with a bunch of plastic tags on my pilot devices. I use the sketch text tool to write the label on each tags.

When comes the time to make my drawing, I get my model sketch and they show on my 2D, no problem.

Well today, it seems Inventor 2014 just gave up on giving me my sketches. Here is the console view of of the lid with the tag texts showing:

Now let's go over the second lid on the same plan and get my model sketch to see the rest of my text.

Click on it and ....

Nothing! still no text.

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I have a VB program that auto updates the size of a door and frame assembly, and in turn, updates the shop drawings to reflect this change.  I have a view on my shop drawing that I have drawn a sketch in.  I start the sketch, add my dimensions, and I use 'Project Geometry' to project the edges of the actual part around the sketch to constrain my sketch and keep it in place.  The problem is, as the program runs, and the door/frame changes height, the sketch loses it's dimensional references to the projected geometry.  When I go back and reopen the drawing after running the program, all the dimensions that went to the projected geometry are gone. 

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Sep 20, 2012

How do I duplicate the 2D line work from a part level sketch into a drawing level (overlay) sketch?

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These sketches were made in Inventor R11, and are attached to part features in the drawing view.  When opening these drawings in 2012, the dimensions that were attached to the sketch are still visible, (albeit in the wrong places and on the wrong features), but the sketch itself is not.  The sketch still exists as an item under the view, but the actual contents of the sketch (lines and hatching) are gone.

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The first step requires welding the two parts together to form an "L" shape, and then cutting off a portion of the corner of the "L" to facilitiate joining the third part in the second operation.  In my assembly, I mated the two cylindrical parts together, then created a sketch and using geometry projected from the parts, defined the area of material removal at the corner and extruded the feature.  Then, I mated the third part.

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So we continued on this way, and now that we've moved to 2012, none of these sketches appear anymore.  We're faced with having to redo this work on every drawing that we've created for this part -- about 150 or so.

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Is there a way to hide project geometry from model sketch? I am modeling a sheetmetal part where I need to sketch centermaks, part number etc. for laser cutting. I want to use xy planes for symmetry reasons when sketching, but I don't want them to appear in dxf. This is a problem if I create a dxf directly from the model.

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Aug 12, 2013

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I could do it by hand, make it look that the holes are on top of each other but then there will be an error which doesn't seem professional.

In some tutorial on yt I have only found that using points one can reference the holes more easily, but it didn't show how.

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Jul 15, 2013

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This is yet another major sign of unstable software. Over 24 software issues discovered from changing  inv2011 to inv2013.

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Jun 6, 2012

I keep getting this error adding a sketch to any view in an IDW... What might be causing this error?

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Aug 8, 2013

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Sep 29, 2011

How would i insert the "variable name" of a custom iProp to a sketched symbol definition (in an idw)?

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 Sub WeldNote()On Error Resume NextDim oDoc As DrawingDocumentDim SketchedSym As SketchedSymbolDefinitionDim oNoteDef As SketchedSymbolDefinitionDim oDefSketch As SketchDim oTextbox As TextBoxDim SNewText As StringDim sNoteText As StringDim oReffedDoc As DocumentDim lReffedWeldType As Long'Err.ClearIf

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Jan 9, 2013

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