Jason:
I like it. Perhaps, just like you can RMB on a part in the browser to
make it grounded, you could RMB on the constraint and elevate it to a
driven status, thus flagging it as being available in your dialog box.
Richard
Jason M wrote:
> For some future version of Inventor I have an idea:
>
> I'd really like a dialog box that would be for driven constraints. What
> I'm thinking is that although you can drive any constraint that you
> place, most of the time I find myself driving only 2-3 per assembly, and
> when building the assembly I'm always wanting to move my parts through
> their motion so I can see how it is operating. But, it's kind of a pain
> to find the driven constraint, pick the drive constraint option, then
> play it. Equally a pain is to grab the item (with the driven constraint
> supressed) and drag it around the screen because inventor sometimes
> moves the part around erratically, and it's difficult to stop it at
> discrete locations, like end of travel of a cylinder.
>
> My proposal is like this:
>
> driven constraint 1 : min |--------[]-------| max
> driven constraint 2 : min |--[]-------------| max
> driven constraint 3 : min |--------------[]-| max
>
> That way, once you start to use a constraint as a driven constraint, you
> can bring up this dialog box and slide the slider bar to move the part
> from it's min-value to its max value. Plus, since all the driven
> constraints would be on the same dialog box, you could, say, extend and
> retract cylinder 1, then swing open and closed door 2, etc, etc, from
> the same box to see all the moving parts from the same dialog box.
>
> Thanks.
> -Jason
> d
>
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