Contextual "Pop-up" menu on selection

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

Glad to use this amazing cloud-based software, I think this is the future of CAD/CAM/CAE, I want to contribute with something that I consider can improves the workflow of the user. One of the most important Solidworks' features that I love is the "Contextual Pop-up menu on selection", well I think it describes itself but I'll try to describe some examples here:

1. Planes: When you click on a construction plane, inmediately appears a pop-up menu on mouse position showing three options, create a sketch on the selected plane, hide/unhide selection, normal view, and so on.

2. Sketches: What if you click on a drawn line and inmediately it appears a contextual menu with most important things that you can do with that line, maybe a button for dimensioning, one to convert it to "construction line".

I'll be glad if you suggest wich buttons should appear in different selection cases, for example: one sketch entity, two sketch entities, plane, axis, faces, bodies, components and so on. Well, that's the whole idea, I hope all of you find it useful to improve your designing workflow on Fusion360.

Thanks Autodesk and Fusion360 team for let us be part of this!

Luis Miguel Guzman

Colombian Aeronautical Engineer

[HughesTooling]

If you select a line and right click you do get a context menu, it changes depending on what's selected. Here's an example with 2 lines.

Although your idea for selecting a plane from the browser could be useful, selecting a plane in the work area does give you most of the options you're after.

One last note.. You should put only one idea in each request so you might want to make another request for you planes idea.

Mark

[kb9ydn]

You can right click and get a context menu in Fusion, but it's not quite the same.  The difference is that in SWX the left click selection menu is a ONLY for commonly used commands.  By limiting the available choices to a small number it makes it easier (and therefore faster) to find the one you want and click on it.  It's also more intuitive for operations on multiple selections.  You hold down <ctrl> and left click to select all entities, and then the instant you release the <ctrl> key the menu is already there right at the mouse pointer.  There is no need for another right click.  This seems like an insignificant detail but it feels a lot more fluid.

The other thing about the Fusion right click menu is that it's uses a pie layout instead of a rectangular icon layout.  I find the pie layout less space efficient and it takes more mouse travel to use it.

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[jason.dupree]

I support this to be very similar to Inventor where only 2-4 buttons pop up depending on what you left click. Since so many tools come up on the right click, it would make sense to have it turned off by default. And maybe even have it turn on when you change the Shortcuts option toe Inventor.