Hello, and welcome to the latest Inventor Wish List Ballot. There are many wishes to review and vote for, and I appreciate you taking the time to help make Inventor a better product for all. We have made some improvements to the list, which will hopefully make voting a little bit easier.
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Inventor Macro Recorder |
| Be able to record macros in Inventor |
| Submitted By: Timothy Hessel |
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Ability to "Change Component" of an iPart by RMB pick |
| be able select an iPart model,RMB and have a selection to "Change Component", rather than using the browser to select. |
| Submitted By: ROSS HOLLANDS |
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Ability to name a constraint while creating it |
| Have the option to a name constraints when creating them |
| Submitted By: Mark Flayler |
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Adaptive Part "Off" Icon |
| When turning the adaptivity off have the icon change apperance to show that. |
| Submitted By: Scott Ainsworth |
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Choice of LOD When Placing Part |
| Be able to choose which LOD(s)you want to show the part, when placing it in an assembly. |
| Submitted By: Alasdair Currie |
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Color Options in Work Features |
| To have the possibility to "color" user & work planes (see Mech. Desktop) |
| Submitted By: Stelian Medianu |
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Control Opacity of Individual Assembly Parts |
| Be able to control the opacity of individual or selected parts in an assembly with the use of a slider bar |
| Submitted By: Arjan van den Bulk |
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Embossing an Assembly |
| Embossing an assembly |
| Submitted By: Matthew Beier |
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Expand BOM Functionality to Derived Parts |
| Allow the original parts BOM values to be accessed in Derived components. |
| Submitted By: Tobias Angermaier |
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Locked Level of Detail Representations |
| Needed: the ability to "lock" levels of detail as you can design view representations. |
| Submitted By: Stan Moore |
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Make a "Tab In Slot" constraint available |
| Alignment of tab into slot constraint |
| Submitted By: Tom Barosso |
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Midplane Patterns for Pattern Component |
| Be able to pattern components both direction |
| Submitted By: Brian Burch |
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Moveable Assembly Section Planes |
| Select - RMB - move section plane and then be able to drag using a combination of keys (e.g. MMB/ctrl) |
| Submitted By: Duncan Anderson |
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Option to Save All - generated files in iAssemblies |
| When generating iAssemblies have the option to savall files from the table rather than doing them individually |
| Submitted By: Dan Morick |
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Pattern occurrence based on sketch points. |
| It should be possible to create an occurrence pattern based on an sketch with points. Based on this sketch points the occurrence should be selected similar to the way the hole frature works in parts. |
| Submitted By: Christoph Stumpf |
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Shrinkwrap Assemblies with Task Scheduler |
| Be able to batch shrinkwrap assemblies using the task scheduler |
| Submitted By: Brian Burch |
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Suppress Assembly Constraints from Excel |
| Be able to control (suppress/unsuppress) assembly constraints from an Excel spreadsheet |
| Submitted By: Mohamed Salem |
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Virtual Part Reference to an Assembly Part |
| virtual Reference to a part so when creating balloons and the reference pat is selected the vitual part will also be ballooned |
| Submitted By: Brian Busse |
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Add Pillow Blocks & Flange Bearings to CC |
| Add pillow blocks and all types of flange bearings to the CC |
| Submitted By: Duncan Anderson |
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Make Structural Steel Lengths Standard Size in CC |
| Make the CC Structural steel lengths standard industry sizes |
| Submitted By: Andy Laugisch |
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Edit all similar Bolted Connections |
| Ability to edit all similar bolted connections at once instead of individually. |
| Submitted By: Garren Wright |
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Rotation Constraints when Inserting a Gear |
| When creating a gear set have the rotational constraints already applied |
| Submitted By: Andy Laugisch |
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"Sticky" on selected annotation styles |
| In the drawing environment, allow the annotation style under the format drop down to remain persistent and not revert back to "By Standard" after each use of the dimension command. |
| Submitted By: Don Starkey |
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Ability to Break a Parts List |
| Be able to break a parts list into sections so they can be spread accoss the drawing or on another sheet |
| Submitted By: jon selzer |
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Better Table Feature in IDW |
| Expand the current table options to more lik an excel table with the same functionality |
| Submitted By: Ol Sh |
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Cascading Styles Like AutoCAD |
| The beauty of basing one style upon another - cascading - is that when a core item is changed it would change all the way through those styles based upon it, but it still gives you the flexibility to have small tweaks in the styles. |
| Submitted By: Duncan Anderson |
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Copy & Past Tables |
| Be able to copy a table and paste it to another sheet/drawing |
| Submitted By: Rudy Pont |
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Create View scales in Architectual units |
| Create View scales in Architectual units |
| Submitted By: jon selzer |
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Default parts list formatting options |
| An option to set how a parts is organized e.g. list by part number, decscription, etc. |
| Submitted By: Brian Burch |
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Find and/or Replace Text in the Drawing Manager |
| Have the find command locate text in the drawing and have the option replace individually or all |
| Submitted By: STEVE GARRATT |
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Make Base View Associative by Default. |
| Option to have the base view in an .ipn default to associative view |
| Submitted By: Robert Reid |
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Parts List Styles and Extents available in Parts List |
| Parts List Styles and Extents available in Parts List without workarounds. Communicate Bending Style, Extents of Length and Width to fabricators. |
| Submitted By: Mark Flayler |
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Plot Stamp |
| Be able to setup a plot stamp option |
| Submitted By: Terry Cooke |
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Revision Block Manager |
| Could be used to control revision block visibility (what if you have more blocks than you have room for and don't want to delete them). |
| Submitted By: jon selzer |
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Verification of Section/Detail View Lettering |
| Have program accurately track view letters, so even if a view is deleted all the other views update with consecutive lettering. |
| Submitted By: Rudy Pont |
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Zero in front of Fractional Architectural Units |
| I would like the style and standards editor to allow architectural units to display a Zero in front of a fractional unit for example today 1'-3/8" is display as written. The desired result would be 1'-0 3/8". |
| Submitted By: Justin Rice |
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Additional Balloon Arrangement |
| Be able to arrange balloons to an ISO view angle |
| Submitted By: David Gaskill |
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Change visibility of table columns |
| Have the option to not show columns in a table/parts list on the drawing but be able to see them when editting the lists |
| Submitted By: Virginia Padale |
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Copy Table in IDW from Sheet to Sheet |
| Be able to copy & paste a table from one IDW sheet to another IDW sheet |
| Submitted By: Imran Bhutta |
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Drawing scale of base view in title block |
| Having drawing scale of base view to be shown by default in title block (without brackets) |
| Submitted By: Niels Greve |
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Keep a fixed length on the weld symbol tail |
| Have the option to maintain the weld symbol tail size and keep the symbols consistant in the drawing |
| Submitted By: Jim Swain |
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Updated Standards for Welding Symbols |
| Update weld standards to latest AWS A2.4:2007 |
| Submitted By: Ed Steffes |
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Multiple View Graphics area |
| Divide the graphics screen into multiple views of the same object so that you can work on a file without the need to rotate |
| Submitted By: YC LEE |
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Create Subassemblies Inside Frame Generator |
| Be able to create sub-assembly frames as needed |
| Submitted By: Duncan Anderson |
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Improvement to Frame Generator End Treatments for Curved sections |
| created a custom odd shaped extrusion and placed it in the Frame Generator. When I placed this part into my .iam file with other straight sections, I was not able to miter the joint between the two and it looks terrible |
| Submitted By: Charles Parnell |
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Notch Merged and/or Curved Frame Members |
| I would like to be able to notch a non merged frame generated member to a merged frame generated member. Also, the ability to notched curved sections is needed. |
| Submitted By: Joe Harrenstein |
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Render IPN file in Inventor Studio |
| Have the ability to render a Presentation file in Inventor Studio. |
| Submitted By: Steeve Vallieres |
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Studio Rendering Preview Window |
| Allow user to select a window of the screen to preview what the rendering would look like. It would allow the users to get a sample image at an area of their choosing with their current settings. |
| Submitted By: Joshua Petitt |
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Abulity to Show Dimensions of Planes, etc |
| Have the abilty to select planes, etc and reference dimensions from them |
| Submitted By: Duncan Anderson |
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Folder Segregation of Materials in Styles Library |
| Be able to create folders tha will contain like materials. |
| Submitted By: Philippe LANDRY |
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Hyperlinks in iProperties or Notes |
| To be able to include a live Web address in the Web property of the I-Properties or insert it in an Engineering note. Right now a URL can be included but it is only dead text, nothing happen when it is double-clicked. |
| Submitted By: Xavier VENISSE |
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iProperties As Sketch Text |
| Allow model and custom iProperties to be used as sketch text. |
| Submitted By: Max U. |
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iProperty Editing Improvements |
| Add iPropWiz to Inventor |
| Submitted By: Sergio Duran |
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Letter Drill sizes for Holes |
| In Simple hole, pull Hole specifications by letter or diameter, have optional column for pilot holes as well. All values would be exposed for Hole notes. |
| Submitted By: Allen Gager |
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Material and other drop down lists in iPart Author Dialog |
| To have the user defined Material Column and Display Style Column with in the iPart Author dialog box have a drop down scroll bar similar to the SheetMetalRule and the SheetMetalUnfold columns in the iPart Author do. |
| Submitted By: Charles Parnell |
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Pattern Splits in a part |
| Be able to pattern splits |
| Submitted By: Dan Walsh |
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Reamed holes as a hole type |
| Add "Reamed Holes" as a hole type selection so specific drawing notes can be created and tolerances applied to reamed holes for dowel pins. |
| Submitted By: Dave Landis |
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Retain Previous Dialog Box Info |
| Have dialog boxes etain the previous settings info rasther than going to the default (maybe as a option) |
| Submitted By: Barry Cowley |
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Rotary Object for Sweep |
| Provide the ability to model an actual feature result from a tool path. |
| Submitted By: Scott Ainsworth |
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Surface Properties Toolbar |
| Allow changing color and other properties of surfaces |
| Submitted By: Joshua Petitt |
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Sweeps to Face/Plane/Next, Etc |
| Have the same functionality of extrude in the sweep command |
| Submitted By: Peter de Vries |
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View Representations in Parts |
| The view reps would control the visual aspects of the surfaces. |
| Submitted By: Joshua Petitt |
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Create Flat Pattern DXF from Sheet Metal on Check in |
| What I would really like to see is an option to handle the DXF flats just like the option to automatically create DWF/DWFx files to a specified location (outside of Vault). The files would be wrote over top of the old if changes were made. This would work great because anyone in the company could retrieve the latest flat as they currently do with the DWF files. |
| Submitted By: Ken Everts |
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DXF Export options for Sheet Metal |
| Color DXF patterns to Autocad files |
| Submitted By: Guido Godrie |
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Arc Length in Sketch Environment |
| When placing a general dimension on an arc I would have the option of radius or diameter and then an on/off toggle for the use of arc length. |
| Submitted By: Robert Ludwig |
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Center Point Rectangle |
| Be able to place a rectangle using a center point |
| Submitted By: Brian Burch |
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Lengthen Edit Dimension Dialog |
| Lengthen Edit Dimension Dialog so that Variable names may be added without scrolling or resizing the dialog. Allowing the "Changed" size dialog to remain "Sticky" from session to Session is required. |
| Submitted By: Steven G Williams |
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Make Projected Linetype Changes Retain Associativity |
| Maintain associativity of projected lines when the linetypes are changed |
| Submitted By: Duncan Anderson |
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Save files in Sketch Mode |
| Turn on the ability to save files in sketch mode and upon opening the file, immediately enter into the sketch environment. |
| Submitted By: Thomas Whistler |
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Allow coloring of part features in a Weldment. |
| Allow machined features in a weldment envirnment to be identified more easily by applying a different colour to the machined feature. |
| Submitted By: Gary Cook |
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Positional Representations in a weldment environment |
| I wish for the ability to use Positional Representations in a Weldment. |
| Submitted By: Allen Gager |
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Retrieved dimensions on a machining feature - IDW |
| Be able to retrieve machining feature dimensions from the model to the drawing |
| Submitted By: Redwald Villanueva |
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Export .IDF Files |
| Be able to export .IDF files |
| Submitted By: Alois Spiess |
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Harness View Reps in IDW Views |
| I use design view reps to show the "unrouted" representation of a wire/harness file for assembly drawings and then use the design view rep to turn off visibility to create my routed assembly that is used in the top level assembly. |
| Submitted By: Brian Burch |
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Ability to use parametric forces in Simulations |
| Use parametric simulation forces to determine that would act within a set safety factor |
| Submitted By: Dave Whiteley |
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Add XYPLOT as an option to the report |
| When creating stress report have an option to include an XYPlot |
| Submitted By: Dave Whiteley |
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Ability to Lock Toolbars |
| Be able lock toolbars in position |
| Submitted By: AARON STEIG |
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Ability to SaveAs a New Assembly/Drawing |
| Ability to SaveAs, a drawing/assembly and have the option to rename all parts and/or assemblies with all constraints intact. |
| Submitted By: Mark Flayler |
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Add measurement capability to Inventor View |
| To allow non-inventor users to view and measure from the viewer without having to resort to DWF files. |
| Submitted By: Brian Burch |
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Esc with Mouse or Keyboard |
| The ability to Escape from any command by using the Escape key or Mouse/Icon action |
| Submitted By: eddy ventura |
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Multi Sheet Viewing |
| Ability to view multipe sheets of drawing for quick reference |
| Submitted By: Kennith George |
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Multi View Ribbons |
| Ability to customize ribbon bar to get multiple ribbons |
| Submitted By: Remco deJong |
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Preview Template Thumbnails |
| Template File Thumbnails in the New dialog box |
| Submitted By: Stuart Penberthy |
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Show Note Text in Drawings |
| I wóuld like to have the option to show the text and grafic from a note in a drawing |
| Submitted By: Joris Steurs |
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Vault Status Bar |
| Add a status bar at the bottom of the Inventor screen that displays the current login status of Vault (server name, Vault name, user name). |
| Submitted By: Steve Strohmeyer |
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