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1- Semi-Auto dim placement/alignment (yellow dot) is sketchy at best. Works sometimes, does not work many many times. This is for
initial placement. (During realigning it seems to work always)
DA- I find it best to tickle the dim I'm aligning to, then the yellow dot appears
2-Quad finding is very hard to impossible sometimes, many times its fine. This makes it hard to establish this as a valid
complaint because when you post to point this problem out, you get all the guys trying it and coming back and saying..'works here'.
Well for many of us many times it does not work. Major pita.
DA- I agree the cursor icon isn't very clear
3- Mass still not available in idw. Have to use a customers workaround (iProperties) Just do a search for 'mass idw' in the news
group and you will see how much this is wanted. I can not believe this is not done. I just can't.
DA- Isn't Material missing as well as some other useful iProperties ?
4- Have reference parts get hidden in idw where appropriate. For instance a vehicle that rides of rails. In plan view I would like
to see the rails where they are visible, but hide them where they are not. Right now the rail appears in its entirety. Why would we
want ref parts always visible when behind an other object? Not very often I don't think.
DA- You would have to create different Design Views for each view in the drawing - please explain if I've misunderstood.
5- In an idw 'find in browser' is not available on content center parts (bolts).
DA- I'm not sure why you'd need this. If you want to hide all CC parts you'd do this from an assembly and create a DV - please
explain if I've misunderstood.
7- Just about everywhere, when prompted for a value, we can enter in any valid algebraic expression...even something like 6in + 2mm,
this is very nice. Why in the scale box for drawing views do we have to enter decimals? (also, break the view alignment if the scale
from base is turned off, you do not want your view aligned if it is a different scale!!)
DA- This should be a Style with Ratio as the default and decimal if there isn't a simple ratio.
8- Anyone else wish they could have say, the base view
populate a scale property, so we can put our scale in the title
block where 95% of us put it!!!! How did this one get over
looked? (My jaw is dropped.)
DA- Title and Scale should be a Style. For Flat Patterns the title should default to FLAT PATTERN and be visible.
9- Auto project does not work in assembly sketches.
Cant retrieve dims from assy?????
Still have to delete and reinsert a BOM to see changes made to style.
DA- Still a lot of inconsistencies between part sketching and assembly sketching. I don't use BoMs, but Parts Lists were destroyed
in R10, they are currently the worst they ever been.
10- When you place dims in an idw, there are these ref 'snap'
lines that appear as you move your cursor away from the view. These appear to be there so there is a way to space your dims out for
an orderly looking drawing. This is a great idea, but it only works sometimes, other times the 'snap' ref you are given seems out of
spacing. Seems to be determined by what you are dimensioning and how far into the view it is. This would be a really good feature if
it were fixed. This seems to be a common problem with A/D. They only take you half way there. So many half baked, unpolished
features.
DA- I think this is controlled in the Styles. But needs improving as it can be inconsistant.
11- When in a part sketch, get rid of those green lines that appear after you cross certain geometry, like a mid point of a
line, they make it look like if you click, a inferred constraint will
form. Better yet, make a inferred constraint!!
DA- I don't know about green lines, but green dots will create coinicident constraints. These green dots are very good for nailing
down leader arrows, particularly from balloons. The arrow will stick to the green dot.
12- Very minor, but why do we see the shortcut cursor icon
(arrow) when we drag a part from the browser into the graphics area to create a new part. This should be the plus symbol for copy. I
could see using the shortcut icon if we were dragging to create a derived part, but not a new copy.
DA- Inconsistent with Microsoft Windows standard. The same icon appears when you drag a part into an assembly from Windows Explorer.
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Duncan
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