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Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:09:41 GMT

Just installed Inventor Pro 2018 (Build 112) on a new computer. The 'Whats New' mentions a new dialog box for the Ground and Root Component.

My installation still behaves the old way. I do not get the Dialog box and the command still shows 'Ground and Root Component' and not the renamed command 'Ground and Root'

Is there a setting that we need to change to get the new functionality?

kelly.young has edited your subject line for clarity: Ground and Root

Re: Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

johnsonshiue — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:10:05 GMT

Hi! The new Ground and Root is available as part of 2018.2 Update, not in 2018.0 RTM build (the one you have). Please log on to your Autodesk account and install 2018.2 Update.

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

mcgyvr — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:10:18 GMT

doh.. Johnson beat me.

The whats new for 2018.2 release mentions/includes those updates..

You do not have that installed and are just 2018 (no updates)..

So install the 2018.2 update and benefit from a long list of bug fixes and additional improvements.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Inventor-WhatsNew/files/GUID-5176A8F4-0342-4F20-B237-EA0CEEC97382-htm.html

See the "Whats new" for each update and initial 2018 release in the menu on the left of that page..

Re: Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:10:32 GMT

Thank you. Whats weird is that my Autodesk desktop app tells me that 'Your available updates are installed'. It doesn't tell me that there is the 2018.2 available for update.

I downloaded the 2018.2 and installed it. It now works.

Thanks again

Re: Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

nvdijk — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:31:00 GMT

Hi,

Is there a possibility to set a default for the three options in this dialog box so the box doesn't pop up every time you want to root a component?

Thanks

Re: Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

TonyBrowne — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:14:11 GMT

I would like this as well.

In my workflow I use Ground and Root frequently.

The good news is that if you are doing the same operation to a series of parts in the same assembly, hit "Apply" to leave the dialog box open so you can select the next part with the same options. Alternatively you can select multiple parts and do the operation all in one hit.

Tony B

Re: Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

EricSchubert-Symetri — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:54:14 GMT

@nvdijk wrote:
Hi,
Is there a possibility to set a default for the three options in this dialog box so the box doesn't pop up every time you want to root a component?
Thanks

This! I have a customer complaining about this very thing. We'd love to see a "Don't show this again" option or something similar. Adding this dialog box has only added more clicks for them.

Re: Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

johnsonshiue — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:35:26 GMT

Hi Eric,

I know the customer you are working with. I am reviewing the issue list. This particular request came from existing users also. I helped author an idea to leave a record. The implementation was done under extensive discussion on Beta forum and user study. There is definitely room for improvement. If possible, please encourage the particular customer sign up Inventor Beta program in the meantime.

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor 2018 What's New Ground and Root Dialog Box

EricSchubert-Symetri — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:38:37 GMT

@johnsonshiue wrote:
Hi Eric,

I know the customer you are working with. I am reviewing the issue list. This particular request came from existing users also. I helped author an idea to leave a record. The implementation was done under extensive discussion on Beta forum and user study. There is definitely room for improvement. If possible, please encourage the particular customer sign up Inventor Beta program in the meantime.
Many thanks!

Thanks, Johnson! I appreciate your help working with all of their issues. I put together an Idea post to add that checkbox, hopefully that doesn't double up on the one you wrote.

I'll see if they can sign up for the Beta program. They may not, just due to lack of time to evaluate beta products. We'll see.