Creating a Section View (Autodesk Inventor 2013)

This tutorial displays how to create a Section View in the Drawing Sheet.

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Transcription of Video

1. Create a new Drawing sheet with metric template.
2. Activate the Base View command from the marking menu.
3. Open the Housing Fixture (.ipt) part file.
4. Set the View Scale of the base view 3:1 from the drop down list.
5. Click the toggle visibility button.
6. Enter the text FRONT VIEW in the ‘View Identifier’ field.
7. Click OK to place the view.
8. Save the drawing sheet with the name Housing Fixture.
9. Activate Section View from the Create Panel and select the Base View to define it as the parent view.
10. Hover the mouse pointer over parent view to find the dotted inference line which defines the Center of the Base View and click to start creating section line.
11. Click Continue button from the right click context menu, Section View dialogue box appears. From here View identifier name and scale can be edited.
12. Click in the design window to place the section view.
13. Save the file.