Section Sources Dialog Box enhancements

[kovacsv1]

My convenience/productivity enhancement ideas for the section sources dialog box are:

- Sort available sample sources by name and type

- Filter available sample sources by name and type, let the use of wildcards (*,?)

- Select, Add, Remove multiple sources

- Don't jump back to the top of the list after Adding a source object

- Modify the style of multiple added sources of a type

- Filter out/or add new icon for Dref objects coming from xref (this one causes the multiplication of source objects if for e.g. two model files are xrefed and they contain Drefs of each other)

- Adjustable width for the available sources window separately from the dialog box

Please see attached gif.

Additional ideas are welcome.

Thanks.

[joantopo]

I would add changing the icons to be more clear.

Autodesk changed icons in C3D 2021 and icons are really small and icon of corridor surface vs corridor section are very similar so it reproduces a lot of confusion.

[TimYarris]

@kovacsv1 , thanks for the idea. We can evaluate these enhancements the next time we work on the Section Sources dialog box.

In the future, would you please not group multiple ideas into a single post? Having many ideas in a single post makes it challenging for us to address a post and close it out.

[kovacsv1]

@TimYarris thanks for the response. I'm sorry, I know from developers side this is not ideal, but the reason I batched them is that, these are, I think, so minor improvement ideas that they would not get much attention if posted one by one, and the board would have been spammed. As I see, major improvement ideas go well on the Idea Board, but with convenience ideas it is harder to get attention, because I guess it is workflow dependent. I know I could do this easily in Dynamo, and usually I do, and I see the ton of work and improvement  Autodesk put in the sofware in the past few years, but in daily use there are still lots of obsolete stuff in there with these countless clicking dialog boxes. But again, thanks for the response and keep up the good work.

[TimYarris]

No worries at all, @kovacsv1 .

I understand the frustration with the little inefficiencies that add up. Hopefully you've seen some of the similar work we did to the Corridor Targeting dialog box in the 2022.1 Update. In that case, customers like you gave us a bunch of suggestions to make that dialog more efficient (key word search, filtering, sorting, etc.). We'll take a similar approach to other areas of the product (such as the Sample Sources dialog) as we get the opportunity.

Thanks again for the feedback.