NX9 - Associative View Orientation for ISO view?

[Kenja824]

When using BASE VIEW, and selecting the ORIENT VIEW TOOL, if I check "Associative Orientation", I can click a face for Normal Direction, and a horizontal edge for X direction to get a squared view that is associated to that view of the model. I can move and spin the component around and the view will stay the same in Drafting.

I have learned how to do this with Projected Views as well.

However, I cannot figure out how to create an ISO view of my choosing that will be associative. Any of the options I choose seems to change the view on me. How do you do this with a view where you don't have any faces that are flat to your view point, or edges that are in the X direction?

 

[JohnRBaker]

ONLY if you're actually moving the objects in space, not just changing from where you the users is looking at them, will this effect the Drawing view orientations as long as you're working in Master Model mode.

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[Kenja824]

I can create drafting views that are true views of the model and make them associative to the model, so if you go to modeling and use "move object" or "move component" the drafting view still looks the same. The dimensions will stay clean. What I cant figure out is how to do this with an ISO view. If we create an ISO view of an assembly, and then label the components, and then go into modeling and use "move components" to spin the model about. When we return to drafting, the iso view looks spun about too and the labels are all crossing each other.

The reason I cant get it to work is because when creating the view from BASE VIEW, and I select the "ORIENT VIEW TOOL" that looks like the two curved arrows icon, when I check the Associative Orientation box, I cannot figure out the options to create a clean iso view. Any options I use change the orientation of the object in the preview screen to an orientation that is all wrong. ISnt there some option where I can orient the model in the preview window to how I like it, then just select something to "fix" the view in that particular orientation? Or some trick to using these options to create the orientation you need?

I know this sounds unorthodox to need to do such a thing, but this option could save us a lot of work, time, and grief in the future for what we are working on doing.