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Custom shortcuts / mapkeys

Custom shortcuts / mapkeys

It would be very nice to be able to set your own customized keyboard shortcuts (mapkeys / shortcuts / hotkeys) !

 

I find personal shortcuts to be extremely powerful, and use them in Inentor a lot.custom_keyb_shtcuts.png

96 Comments
Anonymous
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After three weeks of immersion in Fusion 360, having spent five years in Solidworks, I'm pulling my hair out trying to speed up my workflow to something comparable to the work I do in Solidworks.

 

Customizable hotkeys would be a huge help and seeing that there was a 13 page thread (http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/keyboard-shortcuts/idi-p/3948259#comm...) discussing this very topic posted over three years ago and nothing has changed... I'm finding it hard to believe that this is still low on the list of priorities.

smallfavor
Collaborator

I feel your pain!  I too am dismayed that a next generation professional Autodesk application is so lacking in basic professional facilitation.   I don't like to bitch, and I'm very onboard with the application conceptually, but for pete's sake, why some much grief to accomplish such rudimentary task?

 

 

Anonymous
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Please, can we get it in already? It is a simple feature. 

 

Anonymous
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I just want to echo my support for this idea. I've used Solidworks since my first internship, and I've since customized a lot of commands and functionality.

 

I understand that different programs will have different features and default shortcuts, which is fine. But I like being able to customize options to suit myself, and in particular easy to remember commands. At this point I have a bunch of shortcuts which aren't even enabled in SolidWorks by default, and it's frustrating to have to click through menus to get to certain features, when I'd rather just hit a single key on my keyboard.

 

Regards,

 

Alex

Anonymous
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I sorely miss 'normal to' (N) and 'measure' (M), which were the first keys I always mapped in SW. 

It does only have 82 upvotes and three pages of people asking for it.. lets just wait and see if there is any real demand

cali.season26
Advocate

I agree with such feature.

Esc is erasing what I do. It's really boring : the esc key is one I used the more with solidworks.

 

Comparing to fusion 360, solidworks is horrible, but this ESC key makes fusion 360 a bit less smart, really.

 

Anonymous
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Hotkeys are essential.  The 'S' command is useful, but not sufficient.

Anonymous
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Hey roambotics,

How many pages do we need to create then? Come on. It is a simple thing, easy to implement. And  it exists without saying in every single professional application I know about. Is it not enough?

matth
Advocate

How close are we to being able to manage a list of commands for ourselves? I would love to toggle my selection behaviors or other commands with the keyboard. Honestly, 'S' is good, and swipe is sweet, but not all items are in the swipe, and 'S' is an extra step just the same as the mouse. 

 

I use AutoCAD explicitly with the keyboard driving command entry and the mouse guiding with orchestrating the commands in the canvas. 

 

I mean this honestly, the moment you give me the feature in preferences to manage shortcuts against registered commands I will gain an hour a day, growing day by day as I become more and more familiar with Fusion.

 

I am a power keyboard user let me Roar! Call it a Productivity Pack!

smallfavor
Collaborator

103 votes so far on just this particular request that no doubt has been made several time before and all I see at the top of the page is "Future Consideration" .   That's like having a web browser that will someday allow storing links to favorite websites.

matth
Advocate

I write programs in c#, MVVM, Agile, and I feel as though if you have a UI component like 'S' that can parse a collection of commands... why no customizable shortcuts already?

 

I don't know your architecture and what patterns underly Fusion 360, but I do feel as though this should be a relatively quick improvement.

 

IF you can save me an hour of my day, when I am only drafting for 3 hours of a day, then I think you can do some quick math. (exaggeration)

 

Delaying this feature is having a macroeconomic impact in productivity. Seconds or minutes of productivity lost in the aggregate of users is dramatic in the total calculation of economic productivity. Delaying this feature is like knowing your product kills and selling it anyway. (which apparently doesn't matter to big pharma, big oil, or Volkswagon).

 

I would rather not insight anarchy, but come on!

 

Anonymous
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The lack of customized hot keys is so crazy to me. Every persons workflow has different frequently used commands, and to assume we all need the same handful is silly. Having a search bar toolbox is nice, but is time consuming over the process of an entire design vs a single key stroke. In my opinion, the ability to set a 3-button mouse to pan, zoom, and orbit is even more important! Please update!

patmang
Enthusiast

It seems funny to me, back in the old days Autodesk would usually just wait for 3rd party developers to independently come up with "plug-ins" and "add-ons" and then they would then take those and tweak them and incorporate them into future versions to charge more money.

 

Today the business model changed to "give it to them for free have them do design assist on the software and we'll charge big time when we ACTUALLY FINISH THE SOFTWARE!

 

Nice...

 

I can't believe no one has made a Fusion 360 clone yet...well come to think of it, they did and Autodesk bought it...it just wasn't finished yet!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anonymous
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I would really love to be able to set my own hotkeys!!

I work as a concept artist in the Entertainment Industry and we have to quickly design and iterate on a daily basis.
Right now I spend a lot of time physically moving my mouse and looking through menus.
Being able to customize would rapidly improve my work, heck I'd even be willing to pay for something like that

otherwise really love the program 🙂 thanks for the awesome work you guys have already done!

Anonymous
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Same keyshot as 3DMAX is a dream!

lokiidesigns
Advocate

Yes Please Fusion - to a lot of the suggestions....Would love to see contextual Shortcuts in Drawing/Sketch modes so that when I press F for Fillet I am not taken out of my sketch to fillet some 3D geometry and then upon completion zip straight back into the sketch as though I did not leave. Odd behaviour in my opinion as this counteracts the purpose of using the timeline to achieve flow on effects in sketches.

 

Would love to see ability to add or control:

Arc (A), Rectangle (R), Polygon (P - option instead of Project) & Slot (S - option instead of S Shortcut)

 

I think this could also be further added to by allowing progression through the varying sketch options by repeatedly pressing the shortcut key - See Idea link below:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/sketch-mode-keyboard-shortcuts-to-to...

todd_alford
Autodesk

Another bonus that this brings is being able to map your shortcuts and program a 3D mouse.  Just to give this some more weighted benefit.

 

Regards,

Todd

Anonymous
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It would be great to have hotkeys for things, not just tools.

 

Like when your in the Edit Sculpt Mode, it would be great with hotkeys for Soft Manipulation and Object Snap.

Anonymous
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As a work around, at least for Mac. For PC, you could use AutoHotKey for this but a bit more difficult...

 

You can make hotkeys for about every command that can be reached with the S hotkey toolbox.

Buy Keyboard Maestro. Download.

 

Make a Group folder for Fusion 360, and restrict it to Fusion360. This way the hotkeys doesn't ruin for other software.

You should also consider using the CTRL modifier key, since it's rarely being used for anything on Macs. Should be careful using the Shift key,

cause you often need to use it while renaming objects and files or commenting.

 

1) Add a new macro for each command, and add "Type a Keystroke" and make it simulate pressing "S".

2) Then another action called "Insert text by typing" and look how many letters is needed for getting your certain command in the toolbox.

As the example below, only had to write "w" to get the weld vertices as first command.

3) Add another "Type a Keystroke" and hit "Enter". That's it. So whenever I hit CTRL + W, I get the command Weld Vertices.

 

Also added "Edit Form" with hitting the § key, which on my Swedish keyboard is almost never used, but always close to my left hand.

So I can jump into Edit Form mode while sculpting super fast. 🙂

 

You do see the toolbox getting prompted on every press of the hotkey, but still much faster.

km_01.pngkm_02.png

 

 

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