Predictable behavior in Create dialog options

[Oceanconcepts]

Currently, when you create, say, an extrude, the interface decides what you likely want to do.  If you extrude into a body, for instance, it selects the Cut option. This is true even if you have previously selected Join, New Component, or New Body.  

If you are moving fast this is easy to miss, and at best requires more clicking when the interface makes a choice other than what you have made. And I find the interface selection is more often wrong than right for me. It's frustrating in the same way that auto-correct spelling is.

I don't believe the interface should ever override your manual selections. I would prefer to see New Body be the default behavior- from there you can Boolean other operations if you really wanted to join, cut, or intersect and forgot to change the option. And if you manually select one of the other options, the interface should honor that selection.

[Anonymous]

I have mixed feelings about this.. If you're extruding something through an existing body, it cuts. If you're extruding from a body, it joins. 

Often those guesses are right and I'd be as annoyed as you if every time I did something the default was just to make a swath of overlapping bodies that I'd have to manually combine later through boolean operations.

I assume for most users the guesses are reasonable.. perhaps just a preference to turn on / off the automated guessing instead ?

[Oceanconcepts]

I can see where there could be different perspectives.  My biggest issue is that the interface changes a selection I have already made.  If it senses the extrude is going through a body, it changes to Cut, even if I had previously selected Join. I would prefer to make my selection before the operation, rather than afterwards going back to the dialog and changing what the program automatically gives me. I already am selecting one side or both or symmetric- I'm in the dialog box before extruding. It just seems more natural to set the whole operation up at once. This could be personal preference or habit issue, but I don't think the program should change a choice you have made.

[Anonymous]

Ah sorry - I misunderstood. I didn't realize it actually switches to «cut» /after/ you manually set it to «join» (I was picturing extrude -> join -> second extrude -> autocut not extrude -> join -> pull through object -> autocut). 

That's definitely broken - user action should always override automatic functions (I'm bothered by that sort of thing in some of the sketch functions actually).

[Anonymous]

I'm in total agreement.

With other geometry visible and extrusion always defaults to CUT.

This often causes a hangup in the software as I have reference geometry visible to assist in gauging how far I wish to extrude, cut or create a new body/component.

I wish standard behaviour was to create a new body, then allow me to select cut or join manually.

It's very uncommon for me to extrude sometime into a join. I typically prefer to combine separate bodies.

[colin.smith]

What about a preference to set a default option in the dialog box for extrude? or is this wider spread?

[Oceanconcepts]

This bothers me less as I get used to it, and I think the default of sensing intent is fine, however I also think that if I have gone to the dialog and selected New Body, Join, or Intersect there, the program should not override the selection and turn to Cut when it encounters an object. I guess it comes down to knowing when you have made a deliberate selection.