Please as 'Edit' to HUD menu

[Damon360]

I always expect to be able to right click a part and get the edit option. Putting it in the timeline is good but I find there is a real disconnect between the items in the time vs browser vs the actual part. I think this highlights a bigger issue in the interface paradigm but for now just give me edit when I right click a part! Since parts in the timeline arn't named I have to memorize where the part is just so I can go back and edit it.

[Damon360]

OF course that should read "Please add 'edit' to hud menu"

[haughec]

To clarify, you'd like to be able to edit features (Extrude, Fillet, etc) from the model, rather than selecting them from the timeline, correct?

Currently, you can access features from the model by using the Select Other tool.  Click+hold on the face of a feature that you'd like to edit, choose the Parents tab from the pop-up dialog, select the feature that you'd like to edit from the list, and then select Edit from the right-click menu.  Please let me know if this helps. 

Thanks,

Charles

[Damon360]

That seems to work for fillets but not much else, and clicking holding, selecting parent etc. is messy and a pain. My expectation would be that it works the same as right clicking an item in the timeline. Right clicking a body or element would give you the same edit options as offered in the timeline. Examples: Right clicking a t-spline body would offer an edit option thats opens it in sculpt mode, on an extruded part it edit would open the extrude dialog, on a patch surface it opens in the patch environment, on a sketch the sketch environment, on a draft surface the draft dialog, etc.

Really I think that the paradigm of model, sculpt and patch having to be entered and exited as separate environments is very messy and does not need to be apparent to the user. All bodies and elements should simply be editable with a right click or double click, having the appropriate or applicable tools appear when needed. Right clicking or double clicking another part would then switch the focus to it opening it's tools. double clicking the background returns you to the base mode which now seems to be model mode. I'll also try to address mode switching paradigm in a separate feature request.

The paradigm of clicking and holding on an element is not at all discoverable. I've watched every video I can find and I still seem to have missed that. I will eventually address this with a drill down paradigm in another feature request.

I would be happy to discuss any details for clarity.

[colin.smith]

Archived due to lack of votes.