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I agree an "Emergency Stop" ESC key is a great idea. However please understand there are 100s of commands in Inventor. Implementing this idea globally would entail a significant undertaking. As such, would you ALL be willing to provide us with a list of your Top 5 to Top 10 commands that would benefit you most if you were to have access to this capability? Please append your Top 5 or Top 10 lists to this Idea thread via the comments.
Thanks for your continued participation to this forum. -Dan
If loading a large assembly takes too long, let me hit Esc to stop loading, and simply show the assembly as it has opened up to that point, with the rest suppressed.
I just want to be able to kill an iLogic routine. I have lots of macros that I use throughout the day, some of them have loops that take quite a bit of time to execute. One routine actually contains over 10,000 lines of code. It never fails when I'm running one of these routines, I realize I forgot to do something that I needed to do before hand. It's kind of like how you never notice that mistake on your drawing until you pick it up from the plotter... well, imagine your plotting 300 copies and you can't stop the plotter.
VBA has this function already. In fact, if my iLogic routine was just an API call that ran everything in VBA then I could hit the ctrl+brk keystroke to kill it...
i would probably consider whether we could have this dedicated key rather than escape, or at least consider the options we have.
maybe escape is fine to use, but without testing it i think perhaps we should start out by allowing it to work to a greater extent via a tick box in the application options rather than globally rolling it out?
That's all fine with me Mark; make it whatever keystroke everyone thinks best, add a tick box, it doesn't make a difference to me. Just put it in there somewhere.
This is where I accidentally wrote an infinite loop just now:
Having to forcefully kill a process via Windows is something that we should strive to avoid.
I would vote for a stop sign icon in the lower right hand corner. it would be green unless calculating or opening a file. Then you could click on the icon and kill the process.
1. Open File (including when component is being placed)
2. Save File
3. Rebuild All
4. Pattern
Thanks Dan.
@MDS-MQ, I know little about programming, but I do know this: canceling all your steps isn't always simple. Imagine you're doing a complex math problem. You get several steps in and then decide you want to go back to somewhere in the middle. You can't just go back UNLESS... you've written out ALL your work. Which, for a computer, means that for any operation you want to cancel, it has to save the state of whatever you're changing before the operation. This means memory and computing resources, which means impaired performance. It's probably even more complex than that, but it might give you an idea of why Dan wasn't just being lazy on behalf of Autodesk when he said it would be a significant undertaking--it would.
The times that I need the escape command the most are in large assemblies (especially with tube and pipe features): 1. Move (dragging a part) 2. Rotate 3. Place component 4. Constrain These are when I seem to get hung up most often - I assume it is because it is regenerating, which may mean that the escape key is really most needed on REGEN
Here are 2 areas that I've just recently encountered that would benefit from an ESC option:
The Shell tool often takes a long to process when things are complex, waiting for it to fail, just so I can make an adjustment and start over is not ideal.
The Analyze Interference tool can sometimes take longer to process than expected. Again, having the ability to interrupt the tool, so that we can deselect components, etc. would be a big help.
I always thought that this was a mute point until I started working with imported geometry. The only time I could see the need for it to stop an operation would be during:
1. Repair Geometry, applying any of the "auto healers", like ,Replace with tangent face or delete face
2. Stitch command.
3, Find Errors
4. Heal errors
I really wish that the ESC command key would work right now because I have been waiting about 12 min for Inventor to apply a "Delete Face" command.
As I see it, the ESC key request should function like a mid-stream Ctrl+Z. For instance, in a complex sketch, if I drag something, and the sketch explodes, I know a few frames in that it's going to explode, and would like to be able to stop Inventor from wasting the time to process my erroneous input. This definitely happens to me with skeletal changes, sweeps, and lofts.
The "good" old Autodesk mechanical Desktop had the stop-operation-by-escape-key functionality and for me, that is one of the last things I am still missing within Inventor, so Kudos from me! 🙂