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Replace tool buttons in the bottom right corner w/ a Marking Menu.

Replace tool buttons in the bottom right corner w/ a Marking Menu.

It drives me crazy to have to continually look at the bottom right corner of the screen to see if a tool is demanding a button response to proceed. This becomes especially problematic when working on large screens. I currently use a 43 in 4k dispaly, and it requires a complete body movement just to see if a tool such as "Trim" is using the desired option such as; "Keep, Discard, or Split" and then carefully try to move my mouse a far distance to click the right button. There are many tools that require a click on a button in the bottom right corner; many of them simply say "Build". It's difficult to specify each one, but I think may people would agree that a simply pop-up dialog such as the X-form CV toolbox typically invoked by pressing the space-bar. Having some type of dialog that doesn't require moving the mouse a far distance which breaks focus would be a huge improvement for productivity. especially when working on a specific workflow that requires using the same tool many times over. One thought as well might be that the user might be able to grab this new pop-up dialog and position it where it's best until they are ready to push the button. A simple hotkey might work as well to toggle it. See attached image. Pardon the terrible mouse drawn example using windows snipping tool . . .

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lupasd
Autodesk

Thanks for the idea, we are considering this functionality for a future release.

 

One bit of functionality that will help with the Trim tool, might be of interest here. The mouse buttons have been mapped to the trim options. There is a checkbox that enables this new behaviour and dropping selectors with different mouse buttons will change the option and the colour of the selectors, to reflect that. LMB->Keep, MMB->Discard, RMB->Divide. This combined with Space bar to execute the operation,  avoids the mouse travel to the bottom of the screen completely.

Anonymous
Not applicable

I like the idea and the use case "I currently use a 43 in 4k dispaly, and it requires a complete body movement" ... WOW^^

I think if tools get the consistency of the current Trim tool (V2018) to match with the mouse buttons and accepting via space bar, this would be good enough. To invoke a menu to choose the available options at the current mouse position seems to be great as well. Just thinking about the effect on usability by providing too many possibilities for accepting instead of one user-friendly.

The current buttons in the bottom right corner may have been implemented because they don´t block your view on the feature you just created.

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