4 years later and this channel is still helping me in my new job! Thank you!

greetings from Colombia 2023! Thanks so much for your explication.

Neil, this is the best video that I have ever seen describing the differences between view reps and LOD. What a great job in explanation and keep up the good work!

View Reps and Level of Details COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD NOW!!! THANKS GREAT AS USUAL! Funny thing is I was able to suppress a part in a new View Rep, but then when saving it asks me to save a new level of detail. lol

I'm coming from designing in Solidworks and Solid Edge, your video tutorials are the absolute best. Thanks bud

Thank you so much for this video. I've never used Level of Detail, only Reps. But after watching this I can see how handy they will be for some of our large assemblies.

I know its ages since you posted this, but it really is an excellent presentation. Thanks for the clarity.

I have been using inventor for 3 years and did several courses.Seems like I have learnt more from this channel than any course and book has taught me. Awesome stuff keep making more videos! I tell everyone that is learning inventor to watch your channel. Best of all it’s not boring like most CAD vids.

Oh my flock this was so helpful. I've been watching this channel to try and fully utilize inventor and unlike most channels you actually make sense. Thanks man I've got a bunch of guys in my class to check out this channel and that clickspring guy

Hi Neil Once again, a great video - extremely useful. As you mention, I am exactly one of those people who has never really understood LOD/View, and was creating drawing views of portions of an assembly in really cumbersome way. And just 20 minutes later, all is clear! Please keep up the excellent work, and please consider doing a video on the baffling styles and standards editor. A thousand thanks!! Stephen

Hi, Congratulations and thank you! These are probably the best tutorial videos I've ever found. I use Inventor for years but I learned a lot from your videos. The best way to learn is through laugh and you made me laugh a lot during the videos. Again thank you very much.

This guy is great. I've watched this particular video so many times. It's my go to video for understanding about views and level of details. Wonderful Niel.

Just having this conversation at work today. You sir are awesome! Thanks for all the tips and tricks.

Many thanks for this video, I had a lagoon in my head with this topic, I've been using View Rep for a while but not correctly.

Thank you so much for this video. I've struggled with every BS thing you've mentioned in this video with regards to LOD/Views. This explained it all very well for me!

love your videos. i could listen to your ramblings all day.

man you're videos are so entertaining. i haven't watched you're videos in awhile and within the first 30 seconds of this video i was like "this is just as good as that other guy!" and low and behold it's you again! As always, great tutorial :)

Great job!.....way better than what I've seen so far....very helpful

BANGIN BRITCHES ON!! Musical, spontaneous, and chock full o' good solid Inventor Tips - Thank You!

Totally fantastic video. (Crashes and all). Our office has been using level of detail for drawings. I am going to be switching all drawing to view reps. Man have I got work to do. Thanks for the insight. You have the greatest videos. !!!!!!!

Superb Neil thanks. I've used view reps for years but some new guys are using level of detail for drawing views. It's been driving me mad! I've had to open their stuff and I can't save. . . I can't update. . . my PC keeps hanging . . . I've been waiting over half an hour 3 times and restarted. . . I came back to you and now I understand a lot better why I'm having these issues. Very well explained as always. Cheers. . . . . . Jim

Great videos! I've already been through four in one (long) sitting. Very informative and personable.

Thanks buddy! I'm learning more everyday and you're the best :D

Brilliant Video. Perfectly explained - saves me loads of hassle in the future. Top man.

Great video! I'm watching all your videos now.

Thanks for all the videos bud, they are of MUCH HELP.

I like that you are all over the place, feels natural haha

Thank you English man, you made my day. Useful video.

You definitely should be a teacher. Thanks so much mate.

16:05 🤣 had a solid laugh there. Beautifully presented now I can start using these properly!

That lock option views, amazing. Thanks!!

Oh my gosh! Just what i was looking for!!! Thank you for so much help :)

Fantastic explanation, thanks very much!!

At the end you mention changing the appearance of the material, that nobody would prob ever want that. Actually that's something we're exploring. We are trying to figure out how to create a view rep in the .ipt (material color changes) that would then be available as a toggled view rep in the assembly that contains those .ipt's. Any direction would be appreciated. Also we love your videos! Bravo!

Great video. This has cleared up another mystery for me - someone coming from Solidworks.

Haha i have never laughed so much during a tutorial, Thank you for your entertainment. keep up the great work :)

Thanks, TFI CAD Tips! Very useful. We use View reps quite a bit and sometimes use the level of detail. We have been having trouble checking stuff back into Vault due to the level of details and this highlights why. We use the level of detail to suppress parts which aren't needed but potentially be needed later on in a design. (Our designs are created by iLogic driven Skeletons which populate the parts required and suppress the ones which aren't). We also have rules which pump down information from the top assemblies down to the lower parts. So.....I guess if we have a Level of detail in use, and change the information in the top level assembly and it pumps it down to the lower level parts / assemblies, the parts which are suppressed are updating but technically haven't been opened. So, those parts would require opening and updating and then checking in? Instead of using suppression for unwanted parts, I guess changing the unwanted parts to a ''reference part'' instead and then turning the visibility off would work better? Also have you experienced any updating issues when you use view reps of sub assemblies in main assemblies and then the main assemblies in drawings? We can change visibilities of parts within the model view reps and make sure all the models are updated and showing what we want on the drawing but the drawing view doesn't update (even though it is linked). this results in what we use as a technical term and ''Fudge'' it. Good to know you experience the crashes with 2016 too. Sorry for being long winded

Awesome video....I was one of the ones doing it all wrong.... self tough though...just because the Inventor help seems to be written by accountants....they take you everywhere but where you want to go. Thanks a lot ..

really helpful, learned a lot from it. Thanks again for your video.

This is really a great help!

Great!!!....this will help me Thanks for sharing knowledge! Regards from India🙏😊

Thanks man, exactly what I was looking for! Cheers

thanks i have come across this at work and now i understand

I wish I would have seen this a year ago. I still learned a lot!

Thank you for the tutorial video . you are the best

Yes this is the Best KZfaq CHANNEL

View representations help me to avoid high graphic card load, so I can work smoothly. Thank you.

Definitely the best Inventor tutorial vids on here! Could you do an iLogic video? Why, when and how you'd use it?

Brilliant video - thanks.

Dear Sir, your tutorials are great , and of great use to me , i consult your tutorials every week and i learned a lot , thanks a lot , if i have some particular problem can i submit it to you . great Paul

OMG, I've been using LOD as my view reps for drawings for over a year now. I feel so dumb! haha Thank you so much for this video.

Dude you are the best!

That's awesome. Have been doing it wrong for years now.

Very useful!! Thanks!

Excelent!! Very ood explanation

I am working with Dynamic Configurations and have learned that you can simply delete your bad Levels of Detail instead of trying to fix them and the View, it is just too ridiculous. Instead, only "make Views" just like you said. But, once you have made/updated your existing Drawing Views, simply Copy to Level of Detail and make sure the name is the same as the old LOD that you are trying to replace on your drawing, which is fullproof if you only copy views to make LOD's. This is vital if you want to save space. The ONLY disadvantage to this is if you have "Fake Parts" in your BOM, when it updates to new LOD the BOM loses the fake part, but will keep any edits or customization to the BOM. I am going to make a screencast to show this. Thank you for tuning me into the sheer power of the "View Copy to LOD" when in drawings and models.

This video is 6 years old. How have I only just learnt this. I have been on several Inventor training courses and this was never mentioned...

Great video! I am working with large assemblies that consist of of floor layouts that vary such as 24in O/C, 16" O/C, and 12" O/C. I am trying to find the best way to do this and I am torn between making this an ipart assembly or a level of detail, however, when I tried to do this in as an ipart, my parts list along with mates exceeded Excels maximum level. Can you please show a video explaining when to use an ipart vs a level of detail?

nice job, thanks a lot

This was very helpful :) thk u.

suscribed! thanks!

Thanks alot sir, so simple but a hiden feature. View rep is same as is Solidworks's display states. And level of detail is almost similar to Solidworks configurations.

Thank you

+TFI CAD Tips Man, you do a great job with your videos! It's funny and have a high quality.. Can you do a video of FEA tool?

This very good explanation Thank you. Can you help me how to save the section view in the inventor assembly?

Good video

I want some more in assembly with detail videos I liked the video

Thank you for all of your videos!! Hope you get these comments. Do you have a user video on wire circuiting? there are a ton of tutorials on here on this topic but i've found TFI is the only place to get it right first time. Thanks again!

Thanks for the video man, its a great help. I have been creating a section view of my assembly. And i checked the associative link box while creating a base view. But when i place the view on "paper" it willnot show the section. I can see the section when creating the costem view in the "place base view window" but when i want to place it it shows the default view. Sat here all night just for that one drawing Any ideas? Greetings Franz

good one

Hi l love watching your tutorial on Inventor, one thing you mentioned to be wrong is my daily practice handling large assemblies, using LOD and I am inserting, changing and changing as i go along and although it seems time-consuming to suppress the new inserted parts in LOD, it still pays off in term of low updating time, fast updating of the drawing and so on. So in a project of 6 weeks time, I spare at least a week time using LOD's. How about that? Indeed I do copy view rap to LOD with the same name!

didnt realize someone could be an expert elite!

This is great. Will it work with sheet metal. When you fold a box but you want to show it in stages... To show the bending operator the stages of bending. ?

I LOVE U !!!

A video needed

!!!!! BRILLIANT !!!!!Thank you so much for this video

Hey. Here is some Dutch guy. Superb videos. Learning really a lot of them. Some thing I find useful of LOD's is that you can link them over different assemblies. Say you have an empty assembly and place two assemblies in it which have the same named LOD available. Then you can link them in this new assembly. Is this also possible with representations? I am also curious to how to use the selection priority button at the top of the inventor screen. I actually never use it. Thanx in advance.

What about derived assembly option under LOD right click menu? Did you cover it somewhere? It should've been in 2017 release and it would be amazing if you covered it (it's impact, how to properly handle it, general dos and don'ts).

I know 2016 does not update quantities in the parts list for view representations, do you know if that is an added feature in 2017? i'm making assembly instructions and the parts list matched the view representation but the quantity matches the overall assembly

can you do the same operation to save level of details only with supressed features rather than complete parts??

Awesome. Thanks for the help. I hate those 9:18 moments too.

Dear Neil. I use view representation all so for different colors. For instants when i design z skid i use valves witch are the same for the primary circuit en for the secondary circuit.i give the same valve a different color and with viewrep i can give it the color of the circuit that i put it in.same thing for the positionrep i can put the actuator in the position that is necessary.So a video on these two aspects would be great!Francis

I have to create a Presentation in Inventor, this is new to me. Do you have a video on how to create a Presentation for an Assembly?

What about the constrains? I'm currently working with Inventor but came from SOLIDWORKS what if I suppress a part or a sub-assembly I could get others to move because that suppress also the constrains for me that is the major difference between both function, am I right?

Can you do a video on the compression tool in assemblies.

can you do a video on BIM, what is it about an how to use it

I utilize them diamond and am hoping to use it for some serious Automation...

I was wondering if you could do a video on bill of materials. I’m using inventor 2017 and have a pretty large assembly. I made an exploded view in presentation and want to make a drawing for different sections of my assembly. I’ve broken my assembly into 4 different exploded sections and want to make a bill of materials for each of those. I’ve used the snapshot feature that is in 2017 to capture and have different views of the snapshot. However when I use bill of materials it does the BOM for the whole assembly. Do you have any tips or comments regarding this?

And THIS, people, is why Inventor will never match Solidworks. Not saying that is a bad program but sooo much easier in SW. The reason I'm here is because I'm a Solidworks user for years and just got a new job using Inventor. I've used Inventor before and know a little more than just the basic. Anyways, they told me to use and existing Inventor huge assembly to create a new one with just some minor changes. Well, because whoever created the original one was the only one who knew how to use these features, it has become a total nightmare since no one else seems to understand why. Anyways, you live and learn I guess. Great tutorial by the way.

Where do i turn on the level of detail, it's not in the model browser also not in the productivity ribbon i use version 2022

I could feel that beep in my bones

Hi, thanks for your videos, I just love them, they are so helpfull!! Could you please do a video on how one would do a view of a single part? So what I need, a single part; say a flange OD, ID, 4 holes on pcd. this needs to be on a drawing to go to the cutting company to laser cut OD,ID and 4 holes. Then the same part needs to have a machining detail for say an o-ring groove to be machined in it. So I need one part but two drawings with different details. at the moment i am creating two parts for this as the machining (o-ring groove) shows up in the DXF i send to the cutting company and they then either try to cut it or get very confused. this would really help if I can create one part with different levels in different drawings. from the video above it only seems possible in an assembly. but i need to be able to do this in a single part. THANKS!!

Is there a way to have inventor automatically recognize the part count when it changes per the view rep. For example 36 screws in the entire model, only 8 shown in the view rep. Parts list shows 36, shop scratching their heads and yes, I understand you can overwrite the parts list. Just wonder if that is "the" way to go... any advice appreciated, luv the the channel!

At 14:38... why dont you use isolate command instead of using selection - inv. selection - visibility?

Hey I was in the video!

Great video. My boss uses level of detail reps for his top level assembly drawings that he sends to customers and its infuriating for the engineers like myself lol

Neil, i have a big question and i don't know if you still will see this. But is is possible to make a level of detail with an assembly with a folded plate in it. I want to make a subsection on my drawing with an unfolded version of the plate.

Why are you so Amazing ? no homo :)

HOW TO GIVE THESE ZOOM ON THE SCREEN

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! THANKS A LOT TFI. YOU'RE THE BEST!!!!!! IF I WERE A WOMAN I WOULD LOOK FOR YOU to marry you! unfortunately I'm a ugly man... :-)