topic Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor in Inventor Forum

Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

TGibson7A8HD — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:45:21 GMT

Seriously, how do you disable it?

Second forum post.

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Gabriel_Watson — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:06:34 GMT

Right-click delete your note on the browser?

EDIT: to hide, see the solution in the comment below by @Frederick_Law

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:18:45 GMT

You can hide them:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-2CDC98BA-E201-47AD-B3ED-72FA4994DB9E

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:19:15 GMT

What happened?

Someone put notes everywhere?

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

TGibson7A8HD — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:43:58 GMT

It prompts itself open all the time and crashes my system, its not the notes but the whole notebook.

There is no key-binding listed in the customization panel to disable or unbind it anywhere.

I have a long thread post where Autodesk employees confirmed a bunch of keyshort cut bugs, the engineering notebook being one of them.

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

TGibson7A8HD — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:44:47 GMT

I need to disable the notebook, not delete a note.

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:42:11 GMT

I can only find one way to open the Note, right click menu on the assembly name on top of tree.

And shortcut is "C".

Can't find it anywhere else.

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:44:40 GMT

I've addin that replace command on the ribbon.

Don't know if I can find command in drop down menu.

Notebook is not an addin.

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 21:06:29 GMT

Maybe possible to block the command:

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

pcrawley — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:24:51 GMT

Which version of Inventor are you running?

Nb.dll is responsible for Engineers Notebook. Disabling it, or not loading it through the use of options via the appropriate xml configuration file leaves Inventor effectively unusable. @TGibson7A8HD - I've sent you a pm on the subject.

Blocking it looks like an option (Event Watcher is only installed with the developer tools). @Frederick_Law Have you tried it? It's a feature of Inventor I can definately live without.

Have you identified what sequence of events lead up to "It prompts itself open all the time and crashes my system"? It would be great to find a repeatable sequence of events the developers could block or at least fix the crash.

A few released back, Engineers Notebook was very close on the menus to something like "New Sketch" and I was forever creating unwanted notes - but it's certainly much harder to accidentally launch in 2023 or 2024.

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:34:15 GMT

@pcrawley wrote:

Blocking it looks like an option (Event Watcher is only installed with the developer tools). @Frederick_Law Have you tried it? It's a feature of Inventor I can definately live without.

Might need to catch OnActivateCommand event and cancel the command.

I was trying to replace it with another.

I don't understand how it can activate "accidentally".

Someone need to right click to bring the menu up and press C twice then Enter.

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:42:29 GMT

I changes the Shortcut, it won't respond to it:

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:11:58 GMT

Oh $hit, see if this works:

Sub Main() Dim controlDefs As ControlDefinitions Dim IVEngVNotebookDef As ControlDefinition controlDefs = ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions For Each controlDef In ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions If (controlDef.InternalName = "NotebookCreateNoteCtxCmd") Then IVEngVNotebookDef = controlDef Logger.Info("Found!") Logger.Info(controlDef.DisplayName) Logger.Info(controlDef.InternalName) IVEngVNotebookDef.OverrideShortcut = "Disabled" IVEngVNotebookDef.Enabled = False End If Next End Sub

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:04:06 GMT

There are a few more related commands to disable:

NotebookAlignLeftCmd NotebookAlignRightCmd NotebookArrangeNotesPopupCmd NotebookArrowCmd NotebookArrowReverseCtxCmd NotebookBoldCmd NotebookBulletsCmd NotebookCenterCmd NotebookCreateNoteCtxCmd NotebookCustomizeCmd NotebookDefineNewNoteFolderCtxCmd NotebookDisplayNoteCtxCmd NotebookFinishNotebookCmd NotebookFontCmd NotebookFontSizeCmd NotebookInsertCommentCmd NotebookInsertFolderCmd NotebookInsertNewObjectCmd NotebookInsertViewCmd NotebookItalicCmd NotebookNextNoteCmd NotebookPreviousNoteCmd NotebookRestoreCamerasCmd NotebookShowInstanceNotesCtxCmd NotebookTextColorCmdImage NotebookUnderlineCmd NotebookViewFreezeCmd

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

TGibson7A8HD — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:53:40 GMT

I am using 2021,

I do use a lot of key binds, so my guess is if the mouse drifts over to the tree and I hit C, it prompts the switch to the ENG NB. For some reason that jumps the resources being used on the computer when it gets prompted. Sometimes for constraint, sometimes for copy.

Im not exactly sure when and where its happening, but my ENG NB opens up a lot when I'm trying to do something else and the aforementioned issue is caused.

Re: Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

Frederick_Law — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:10:13 GMT

BTW

Export setting won't save the "Notebook Disable".