Glorious Toolshelf Menu

Glorious Toolshelf Menu

cekuhnen
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Glorious Toolshelf Menu

cekuhnen
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I have to say in Blender I am hotkey musician.

 

 

So initially I missed custom hotkeys in Fusion but I found that the toolshelf when populated is a great

way to quickly access commands.

 

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The marking menu is too slow and sluggish. The TS menu is more reliable.

 

Fun fact: I just reset my toolbar to the default cause I dont use it anymore. Where my mouse is are my tools.

 

PERFECT!

 

NOTE: Would be great if one could also add sketch constraints! That would perfect it!

Claas Kuhnen

Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit

Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University

Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design

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Anonymous
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I agree. The Marking Menu is ironically too slow to use. 

 

The Toolbox needs fuzzy search though. Also, I think if you've removed all the icons from the Toolbox it should be completely minimal without the "helpful" text occupying space. 

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cekuhnen
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@Anonymous

 

The lag issue of the marking menu results into to many mistakes and onscreen drawing marking menu noodles.

Till that is not fixed I find it hard to use.

 

The toolshelf tho is blazing fast and in addition I can customize it.

Claas Kuhnen

Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit

Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University

Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design

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kb9ydn
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The tool shelf is a great idea except for one thing: if you have a 3D mouse you end up having to move your left hand back and forth from mouse to keyboard all the time and it ruins the flow.  And I too find the marking menu way too slow.  What would be great is if you could replace the pie menu with the tool shelf.  It's customizable and far more space efficient.

 

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TrippyLighting
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@cekuhnen wrote:

I have to say in Blender I am hotkey musician.

 

 

 

 


 

In Blender you have to be a keyboard musician. However, Blender's hot ket assignments makes this also a very fast and efficient modeling tool because the most uses keyboard shortcuts and combinations are all layers out so they can be reached easily with the loft hand while the right hand drives the mouse.

 

Add to that Blender's blazingly fast and efficient marking menu (called pie menu in Blender) which runs circles around the marking menu in Fusion 360.

 

Modeling Sub-D in Blender is so much faster than in Fusion 360 that its the go-to tool for me to get started with almost any T-Spline project.

 

 

 


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Anonymous
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Agreed!! Also if you have a 3D Mouse you can use the "Radial Menus".  - Jacob S.

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cekuhnen
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To be fair I would say that sub-d modeling in Fusion is pretty fast in general compared to Maya or Modo.

At least based on my own personal experience.

Claas Kuhnen

Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit

Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University

Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design