Wish you could
change Inventor default Z orientation?
You’re not the
only one and I see that in general with people switching cad software or
machinists used to have the Z pointing UP.
The
UCS is set in the template file, iam, ipt, ipn, but there is also a global
setting in tools application options.
Two
ways you can change the default settings.
- right click on
the view cube and choose Options
- click the
“ViewCube” button in Tools / Application Options / Display Tab.
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| Application Options |
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| ViewCube Options |
On the ViewCube
Options window in the Default ViewCube Orientation change Front View Plane and
Top View Plane as you see best for your workflow. I assume you will choose
“XY(+Z)” for Front and “XZ(+Y)” for Top but that might be different for you.
Now you can open
the template files (iam, ipt, ipn) and change default orientation.
TIP: A quick way to change the template is
to choose New, select your template, do the changes and the use the File / Save
As / Save as Template. You will be redirected to the templates folder where you
can override the template file you have opened.
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| Save As Template |
The orientation
in the template will be used when creating new files but if you use the Reset Front option on the viewcube, it changes
as per the settings in the Application Options or ViewCube options.
On the view cube
you can set a different orientation for front and top on the “Set Current View
As” submenu but you can also use the Reset Front which will align it to the
application options.
This will also
affect the lights and shadows for studio and renderings so keep the page in
your bookmarks for later on.
From now on when
you deal with foreign models you can change orientation on the fly by resetting
the view
Later,
ADS
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