Recommendation, "Browser" feature should be renamed and moved

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:31:38 GMT

This is just a recommendation and doesn't need a solution. I wanted to suggest changing the name of the "Browser" and moving it to the "File" tab on the toolbar in a future version of autodesk. It is not intuitive at all that a command so important should be buried in "User Interface" -> "Model" -> "Browser". The word "Browser" makes me think of internet browsing, but not at all some kind of command list. I actually thought the "browser" feature was deleted in the version of autodesk I was using. When I would try and find this feature, my first instinct was to go to the "File" tab and click around there; of course, it wasn't there. I think the "File" tab is where a lot of first-time user would go to utilize this indispensable feature. "Browser" needs to go in "File" where it can be clicked right away and should be renamed something more descriptive of what it actually does, like: "Command History", "List of Commands", etc, terminology more descriptive of what it actually does. Finding where the Browser was saved me hours once you all alerted me to where it was.

Re: Recommendation, "Browser" feature should be renamed and moved

JDMather — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 16:41:58 GMT

Done!

Inventor 2020 Update 1

BTW - the browser is common across many MCAD programs and shows the sketch/feature history of the part/assembly including SolidWorks and Creo. The browser permits you to, well, browse the history of the part.

Might also be called "navigation pane" or similar name.

But this has been a common problem over the years where people accidently close it and don't think to post question here on how to retrieve it and I think this is solved in 2020 release in a way that beginners will easily discover and recover.

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