Something new in Inventor?

[Anonymous]

I was working on a pdf file which required the use of the alt key, but when I flipped back to Inventor I discovered this (see attached picture).

How long has this been in Inventor?

Have you fellas been holding out on me or something .... lol 😛

[ampster402]

that feature is in 2011 also, not sure about previous versions...

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi trumpy81,

This originates from the Ribbon interface ( Inventor 2010).

So it's actually a MS thing:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/use-the-keyboard-to-work-with-ribbon-programs-HA010091908....

It can get in the way of the ALT + Drag workflow as described here:

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2011/01/alt-drag-assembly-constraints.html

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ampster and Curtis.

I figured that it was a ribbon thing, but in all the years that I've been using programs with the ribbon interface I have never seen it.

I guess it's not too hard to figure out that I rarely use keyboard shortcuts, except in Photoshop ....

Anyhow, I thought it was a cool feature and one that I will have to remember in future, as I seem to be learning new keyboard shortcuts all the time.