What’s new - Drawing Assistant for Autodesk Inventor

What’s changed in each release of Drawing Assistant, newest first.

27.1.7Latest

New: place hole and thread notes on the views you select, including the flat pattern.
Changed: the Title Block tool is now called Title Block & Border Setup. When nothing is configured yet, it opens its setup straight away.
Changed: new ribbon icons — crisp at every size, on both the light and the dark Autodesk Inventor theme.
Removed: unfinished test buttons that had appeared on the ribbon.

27.1.5

New: Title Block is now part of Drawing Assistant. The button is on Drawing → Manage → Define, and its settings are in the General tab.
New: Parts List for Views — a parts list covering only what is drawn on the current sheet, at the level you choose.
Fixed: on Inventor 2027 the Settings window could fail to open. It now opens normally.

27.1.4

Choosing a property looks the same everywhere now. Picking a property used to open one of four differently shaped windows depending on where you started from. There are now two: a tick list for choosing properties, and a composer for building a value out of them.
Numbers can be formatted once instead of property by property. Whether a value shows its unit, how many decimals it keeps and whether it keeps trailing zeros are now one setting shared across the add-ins, and any single property can still override it.

27.1.3

The bill of materials sorts the way you set it — including descending, which previously did not take effect.
The parts list in the drawing follows the bill of materials, so what you see is what lands on the sheet.
Sorting on a property that is not a BOM column no longer cancels the sort.
Your settings survive the update — BOM sort and three other shared settings used to be reset to defaults by every new version. That is fixed, and your existing values are carried forward.
The BOM Sort dialog no longer cuts off its own labels at Windows display scaling above 100%. On Inventor 2024 and older this fix arrives with the installer rather than the in-app update.
Interface text that still appeared in English on non-English seats is now translated in all eleven languages.

27.1.1

BOM sorting is now fully configurable — sort on up to three columns, each ascending or descending, chosen from the real columns of your model (including your own iProperties). Text and numbers are handled correctly, so 2 comes before 10 rather than after it.
Out of the box it sorts by Part Number, ascending. Change it whenever you like — your choice is remembered.
The Sort BOM toggle is now honoured everywhere. One path ignored it and sorted even when it was switched off.
The BOM sort window replaces the settings window instead of opening on top of it, and returns you to it on close. The property picker behaves the same way.
Fully localized — the property picker used to appear in English regardless of your language choice. It now follows the language like everything else, in every language the add-ins support.
Corrected three long-standing labels on the property picker (“Add Proprty”, “Opend Documents”, “Refence Document”).
Hole and thread notes no longer duplicate on certain chamfered coaxial holes.

27.0.0

26.0.3

26.0.1