Inventor users for years have devised various ways of adding the drawing plot scale to the their title blocks. They have used mapped custom drawing properties, iLogic routines and prompted entries. We have wondered why Autodesk never made it a drawing property. Well the wait is over, Inventor 2016 detects the drawing scale of the first placed view and assigns it to Sheet Properties of the drawing as the property Initial View Scale.
Place this property in your title block and it will pick up the scale factor of the first placed view. Two things to keep in mind. One, the scale factor format is identical to the scale factor format you select or type in.
Two, the scale factor is only linked to the base view (the first placed view). Changes to projected views are not reflected in the property. Changes to the base view scale will automatically update the property and removing the view will delete the property value.
I am sure there are some pretty sophisticated iLogic routines out there that will continue to be used but at least now, Autodesk has given all their users a way to capture the scale of the drawing.
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