Crop View Complex assembly or part drawings generate complex drawing views.  With the new Crop View tool you can quickly and easily remove unneeded areas of a drawing view to highlight the area of interest.  Many other CAD products provide only a basic rectangular crop.  Inventor 2009, however, allows rectangular, polygonal, and circular crops.

To control the boundary box of the cropped view, the same powerful sketch constraints available in parts can be used such as splines, lines and more. Just another great way to leverage Inventor features.

Automated Centerlines The process of detailing the drawings can take as much as 80% of the entire project!  What better way to save time than automating tasks that need to be repeated in multiple views?  Automatic centerlines do exactly this.  By selecting several views, (or using a filter and window selecting the views), you can rapidly create all the needed centerlines. Even centerlines for sheet metal and punch tools are supported!

Enhanced Styles   Companies often use a particular format for the display of section, detail, and auxiliary views and many customers need to customize the labels associated with these view types. Changes to items like view boundaries, and arrowhead styles, along with the corresponding view labels must be fast and intuitive.    The new View Annotation Style provides increased control over Section, Auxiliary, and Detail views using graphical menus to simplify selection of the desired style.   Additional fields in the style allows you to modify the extension line length, the style and size of the terminator, or arrowhead, and the text style for the label.

Summary

Autodesk Inventor 2009 has many new Drawing Manager features that save time, and are integrated into a natural workflow. These improvements will save you from hours of repetitive work increasing both productivity and satisfaction.