Inconsistent Move/Copy dialog box in Sketch mode

[davidpbest]

In sketch mode, I right-click and pick "Move/Copy" as shown in "Move/Copy" attached screen shot.

A Move/Copy dialog box opens, and when I click on the "Point-to-Point" mode, the display is as shown in "First-Dialog-Box" screen shot.  Note the Move/Copy dialog box does not show the "Target Point" selection box, and the window has a scroll bar to the side that can be moved to get to the "Target Point" selection box to appear.

If I cancel out of this operation, then repeat the "Move/Copy" command in the same manner, the Move/Copy dialog box that comes up is larger size, does not have a scroll bar, and shows all the specification boxes required to successfully use the Point-to-Point mode as shown in the screen shot "Second-Dialog-Box".

This kind of inconsistent behavior is annoying and confusing.  I consider this a bug.

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

This BUG (feature!) has been around for years unfortunately!

The work around is to dock the dialog to the right side of the screen like this, only dialogs docked to the edge of the screen resize reliably. Think the bug is in the library AutoDesk uses so perhaps not easy for them to get a fix. 

EDIT. PS please don't attach pictures, just paste them into the message.

[davidpbest]

I searched about this and found nothing. I had already been using the dock method as a work around. I teach F360 and it's the little glitches like this in the UI that compound the learning curve for new users, which is one of the reasons I posted about it here - in hopes they would fix it.

As for putting images in the message directly, drag-n-drop does not work on my system for this (Mac Ventura using Firefox), and there is no UI tool provided to do so. Getting an image onto the clipboard isn't always as easy as it seems., so I will probably continue to attach them.

[HughesTooling]

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@davidpbest wrote:
As for putting images in the message directly, drag-n-drop does not work on my system for this (Mac Ventura using Firefox), and there is no UI tool provided to do so. Getting an image onto the clipboard isn't always as easy as it seems., so I will probably continue to attach them.

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Does the Insert Photos option not work for you? Have to admit I normally ignore messages with attached pictures because the forum is so bad at viewing them. You can't view attached images and read the text at the same time and load times are very long.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@HughesTooling  schrieb:

..... Have to admit I normally ignore messages with attached pictures because the forum is so bad at viewing them. You can't view attached images and read the text at the same time and load times are very long.

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This is how I practice it, although I do make an occasional exception (for "newbies").

günther

[laughingcreek]

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@davidpbest wrote:
... Getting an image onto the clipboard isn't always as easy as it seems...

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your mac doesn't have screen a screen clipping app? 

the screen clipping app will get the image onto the clipboard.  cmd-v will paste it into the body of the post.

[davidpbest]

Of course it does.  Most images I want to post will be annotated with comments, arrows, call-outs etc. in another app, and thus are not on the clipboard.

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

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@davidpbest wrote:

Of course it does.  Most images I want to post will be annotated with comments, arrows, call-outs etc. in another app, and thus are not on the clipboard.

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Me too, that's how I added the arrow to my last picture! Doesn't that app have a copy to clipboard icon?

[davidpbest · Accepted solution]

Let’s stop please.  

[TrippyLighting]

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@laughingcreek wrote:

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@davidpbest wrote:
... Getting an image onto the clipboard isn't always as easy as it seems...

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your mac doesn't have screen a screen clipping app?

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Of course it does. As opposed to the crippled functionality of the Microsoft offering it allows to add professional looking graphical elements and text 🤪