Creating 2D Drawings from 3D Data - Inventor 2013 and Inventor LT 2013 Essentials - page 42

Editing Views

The detail drawing is an important communication tool, so it is equally impor-
tant to make it as clear as possible. In this section, you will focus on tools that
will help you put the finishing touches on your drawings.

View Alignment

When views are created from other views, they inherit the appearance and scale
of the parent view. Projected, auxiliary, and section views also inherit alignment
from the parent view. Using this alignment and sometimes breaking the align-
ment make it simple to reorganize the drawing.
The simplest way to add clarity to a drawing is to shuffle the position of the
drawing views. Doing this is a simple drag-and-drop operation.

1. Make certain that the 2013 Essentials project file is active, and then
open c02-05.idw from the Drawings\Chapter​2 folder.

You can even move
drawing views to the
opposite side from
where they were
created.

2. Click and drag the base view up and to the left. In Figure 2.11, you
can see how the views projected from it and their children keep the
alignment of orthographic projection.

FIGURE 2.11 Moving a view does not break its proper alignment
with others.