Niels van der Veer
Inventor professional user & 3DS Max enthusiast
Vault professional user/manager
The Netherlands
I've already reported this bug with the "T" shortcut in the drawing environment.
It starts a sketch and starts text.. It shouldn't do that.. It has been reported to Autodesk.
what is the point of have the sketch button available when you are already in the sketch environment. I keep clicking it thinking its the create a line button and its messing me up all the time!!!
@stephenson513 wrote:
what is the point of have the sketch button available when you are already in the sketch environment. I keep clicking it thinking its the create a line button and its messing me up all the time!!!
There is no point.. Just another poorly thought-out "feature" IMO
At least you can turn it off though.
@rdyson wrote:
My guess is that newbies were complaining about not being able to find the sketch tools, though having them available doesn't make them useful
Having it always visible in all other tabs is great but obviously having it in the sketch environment is just pointless obviously.. A newbie has already found out how to sketch..
Autodesk.. Just remove it from there.. Even better give us 100% full control over what tabs are where, what buttons are on what, remove buttons,add buttons, etc...
Perhaps more of a rant than a bug report:
This "sketch tab always visible" features has caused issues, as noted in this thread. The biggest of these seems to be the issue with the shortcut "T" starting a sketch and creating text in the sketch, rather than making a text note on a drawing sheet. Additionally, it messes with other shortcuts that people are used to using. One that stands out for me is "C" for circle. Since I started using Inventor in release 2007 or 2008, "C" started a centerpoint circle in Inventor. "C" starts a centerpoint circle in AutoCAD, which is what most of my users are transition to Inventor from, so many of them are already used to using that key before they even start using Inventor.
Having this tab available does not seem to allow a user to do anything that could not already have been done. Using any of the commands on the sketch tab (line, circle, arc, etc.) initiates the process of creating a sketch, saving only one click versus the way it would have been done before this change (the click of the "Sketch" button itself). In a drawing, it actually makes the classic error of forgetting to select a view before starting a sketch even easier to do.
I'm not one to stubbornly argue against interface changes, but what exactly was this change supposed to do to help anyone? As far as I can see, this change has scrambled hotkeys people have used for years, introduced bugs, and made a common newbie mistake even easier to make, without actually improving anything.
Am I missing something here? In what way was an ever-present sketch tab on the ribbon supposed to actually be useful?
SP1 finally gave the 2 different text commands different shortcuts, but they didn't give the annotate text command a default key even though most people would probably prefer to use that one in drawing files.
They probably don't see the problem with sketch commands always being active as a bug so we're most likely stuck with that "feature" and have tobe content with changing a bunch of shortcuts.