inventor idw's

creating Title Blocks and projected views

Open up a new drawing - 

It defaults to the wrong sized sheet - right click on "sheet 1", edit, and choose size A paper:

Delete the default border and title block - right click, and delete

Create your own custom border
Drawing Resources→Define New Zone Border→

Zone borders divide up the sheet to help you describe where features are in a schematic.  Decide how many zones you would like - 

This will take you into a sketch mode where you can further modify your borders if you want - go ahead and just finish the sketch:

Give your custom border a name:

 Your newly created border is now in your Drawing Resources tab.  Right click on it, and insert it into your sheet.

Your custom border should now be on your sheet: 

Now to create a Title block:
right click→define new title block

Draw some rectangles just like we did in AutoCAD

Fill in text, insert your company logo:

New feature in Inventor - Auto-filled Title blocks!

Look through the Property menu to see all of the different things you can add.

Auto fill in the scale:

Create your own entries: 

 Just fill in text telling the user what data you want in the titleblock:

Once you are done creating your custom Title Block, Finish the Sketch: 

Save your TitleBlock:

Right click on the Title Block you created under drawing resources, and insert it into your sheet:

It will ask you to fill in any prompted entries you created:

You can also go back later to fill data in - just right click on anything you want to change!

Fill in the "iproperties" for your file.  i properties help you organize your work, and can all be linked to your Title Block

explore all of the properties you can assign to your work:

 Try out Inventor's ViewBase equivalent

Projected Views:

Auxiliary views:

Try out some of the dimension features.