What is the best way to draw glass panels in a door using
inventor. and when drawn does it show up in the drawing file?
Just change the transparency of the material, I use Alibre
Design Software and if I am designing something which has glass
in it I use a light blue colour and adjust the material
transparency so that you can see through the material. Im sure
there is a similar function in Inventor. Try this one Click on
the view boundary. Hit s on the keyboard. Project Geometry the
part boundary to hatch, then right mouse button Done. Add
additional sketch lines to define boundary if needed. You can
now add the hatch while in sketch mode from the Hatch tool.
Click return to exit sketch. As Alan said just change the
material and yes it will show up in the drawing file as it is
just an IPT only with the material changed. It depends on how
you started working on Your project. Autodesk Inventor has more
than one way, how to do it... So, if project You started in
'ipt' file (example - door), then You must create