I guess there aren't many others requesting that functionality. Autodesk
does listen. Some of my requests have made it in but others have not. Bear
in mind the overhead involved for Autodesk to introduce a new feature, make
sure it doesn't adversely affect other features (called regression in their
world), debug it, document it in the menu and help system in every language,
and get it to market. We must also realize that they release a new version
every 12 months so it needs to have enough interest to merit the development
resources to work on it instead of other requests, which may have more
requests. It also becomes a new feature that all users need to understand
whether they need it or not, because it will appear in their menu somewhere.
When I started with the program the training was 2 days. It is now 4 days
just to cover fundamentals.
I began asking for the ability to assign item numbers to the Multiple
Catalog items in 1999. It sounds simple enough but it had far reaching
implications as far as the code. It would require lots of resources. And
now 9 years later, in version 2009 we have it. But this came about due to
the fact that almost everywhere I taught, I was getting requests from
customers who wanted to balloon every piece part, not every assembly. AcadE
2009 now has improved item number tracking and he ability to put a separate
balloon on a relay, its base, and retainer clips; also a fuse and its fuse
holder, etc. I took enough people asking and lots of resources to
accomplish this without breaking other functions in AcadE that have worked
fine.
I feel your pain though. It's like the folks who want to use AcadE to
document house wiring. I have a customer wanting to that. Can it? Yes,
but that is stretching it into something that its core infrastructure is not
designed for. It was created to be a control system design tool with those
functions as its priority. We can still draft with it and use it as regular
AutoCAD when we do not need to design a control system.
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Like you, I have been using AE for many years. It is a cable assembly that I
am working on. If you do a search, you will find that I requested this about
4 years ago. I suppose that the best work around is to change the wire
number to fixed and then hide it. I was just hoping that something had been
done in the past year or so since I took 1.5 years off from AE to work in
another field.
Thanks,
Bob
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