Auto-resize

[Anonymous]

Has this always been missing from work planes? If so this would be a good
feature to add to "pro".

Or is the togle just somewhere other than RMB?

gcooper

[Anonymous]

Why do think "Pro" will have more functionality other than the pre-bundled
piping/pcb add-ons?

QBZ


"gcooper" wrote in message
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> Has this always been missing from work planes? If so this would be a good
> feature to add to "pro".

[Anonymous]

Just to confirm what Quinn has written, Inventor Professional consists of a
series of add-ons to Inventor which give specific tools for the piping and
pcb industry.

There are NO changes to the underlying Inventor 7. If you don't create pipe
runs and don't want to import PCB files you won't be missing anything.

Think of it as buying a couple of 3rd party plugins - Inventor is still the
same but you have some extra tools.

Hope this clears it up a bit.

Rory


"Quinn Zander" wrote in message
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> Why do think "Pro" will have more functionality other than the pre-bundled
> piping/pcb add-ons?
>
> QBZ
>
>
> "gcooper" wrote in message
> news:BFB62D6060521802F28DE148F95F2256@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Has this always been missing from work planes? If so this would be a
good
> > feature to add to "pro".
>
>

[Anonymous]

LOLOLOLOLOL

Sorry guys, I was just being a SA with that remark. Who really cares what
the marketing people at adesk do. We're going to buy the best tools for our
applications regardless of there schemes (regardless of brand also). I
personally hope not a single person buys "Pro" and that they roll it into
the "Amateur" version after a year or so ;>)..... I thought the reason you
have an API and VBA is so that people can add in what they need. Just give
us really stable and complete core functionality and leave the back door
open so that the freelance programmers can get in and add the specialized
tools.

Now the real question, "How do you set work planes to Auto-resize?" Guess I
would put this in the core functionality category. Since IV only let's me
resize manually when it wants to, letting it handle it would be fine. And
since the Origin Planes will "Auto-resize" why wouldn't the work planes be
able to also?

gcooper

[Anonymous]

Sometimes, like when parent sketches/entities (of the workplane) change and
the workplane ends up slid off in some weird direction, what I'll do is
"Redefine" the workplane and go through the original steps to do so.
Though, this isn't the answer for ALL cases (like a true Auto-resize), it's
worked for me in a few instances when things changed and the plane goes off
somewhere funky. Just be careful that you redefine it exactly as before -
because there's the potential of messing up all dependent features when
doing this work-around.
Tim W.

"gcooper" wrote in message
> Now the real question, "How do you set work planes to Auto-resize?" Guess
> I would put this in the core functionality category. Since IV only let's
> me resize manually when it wants to, letting it handle it would be fine.
> And since the Origin Planes will "Auto-resize" why wouldn't the work
> planes be able to also?
>
> gcooper
>
>

[Anonymous]

I am not sure you are answering your own question?
But there's a need not to auto size workplanes like when you have twenty or
so and you need them on so you can pick a particular plane to constrain
whatever.
As you can drag there size and position it means you can place the workplane
where its looks correct for a particular feature and size it so it does not
hide other features.
An auto size option like origins........yes makes sense for initial display
get the size up etc, along with a tool for setting visibility of planes axis
and points like design views would help no end.
I bet Kent's already done a tool?

--
Laurence,

Power is nothing without Control
---


"gcooper" wrote in message
news:217B852FB915AB8E1E51988B558F3846@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> LOLOLOLOLOL
>
> Sorry guys, I was just being a SA with that remark. Who really cares what
> the marketing people at adesk do. We're going to buy the best tools for
our
> applications regardless of there schemes (regardless of brand also). I
> personally hope not a single person buys "Pro" and that they roll it into
> the "Amateur" version after a year or so ;>)..... I thought the reason you
> have an API and VBA is so that people can add in what they need. Just give
> us really stable and complete core functionality and leave the back door
> open so that the freelance programmers can get in and add the specialized
> tools.
>
> Now the real question, "How do you set work planes to Auto-resize?" Guess
I
> would put this in the core functionality category. Since IV only let's me
> resize manually when it wants to, letting it handle it would be fine. And
> since the Origin Planes will "Auto-resize" why wouldn't the work planes be
> able to also?
>
> gcooper
>
>

[Anonymous]

"Laurence Yeandle" > I am not sure you are answering your own question?

Can't see where I answered my own question? But from the responses sounds
like this is not possible.

"Laurence Yeandle" > But there's a need not to auto size workplanes like
when you have twenty or
> so and you need them on so you can pick a particular plane to constrain
> whatever.

I do like having the ability to not auto-resize, and about half the time I
can't resize at all anyway, it's kind of a day by day thing sometimes IV
let's me, sometimes not. Notice that in the part Auto-resize can be
unselected and planes manually adjusted. Seems that planes (whether work or
origin) don't have the same functionality between parts, assemblies, or
between work and origin? I just want uniformity throughout. I think that
being able to turn auto-resize on/off on any plane would be logical? I think
being able to slide/resize/auto-resize an axis would be logical too? I'm
sure that we all understand that I'm just talking about the visual
indicator, as the actually entity is infinite and that I don't want to
redefine it, just adjust the visible portion for optimal use.

Am I just babling or do these things make sense to anyone else? Or hopefully
do I just not know how to do these things?

gcooper