Andrew In’t Veld
Designer
I couldn't agree more that the cumbersome way Inventor does the measuring is very frustrating. I am coming from MDT, which is also a 3D parametric solids Autodesk product (NOT tallking about Mechanical), where it is super fast to snap to an end or mid or center, and it sees through the model. There is no lag time due to the possible choices. It also allows measurement from a click into space for situations where there are no features present. Making a idw is even slower still, although if the model is complex enough a good cross-section is valuable.
My beef with the Measure tool in Inventor is that there is no way to record the given information for future comparison. Similar to Text window in AutoCAD. At this point of time I still have to use pencil and paper to do it.
Igor.
Oh great, a wish list. Hang on, these are all wishes from 2006 and 20% of them are already features in Inventor. Does anybody actually use this? Why can't you look through a list of wishes and just vote for the ones that look interesting? Who has time for this??
well, this is a two year old post someone decided to bring back up to the top by venting their frustration...
I don't follow, nor have I ever used the "wishlist" option while it was around, but I believe there is a new way of expressing your wishes for features to be addded.
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(there wasn't an emoticon vomiting)