Customize marking menu for "place constraints"?

[nbonnett-murphy]

Hello, I've installed an add-in which I like very much, but it did some rearranging of the "place constraints" marking menu. Specifically, it moved "apply" to the overflow menu, where it is much harder to access. Apply is just about the only button I use, and I use it a lot, so its pretty inconvenient.

I tried to find this menu in "customize user commands", but either I don't know the right name for it, or it's not there.

Can anyone point me the right direction to customize that menu? Please don't say it's impossible.

[Frederick_Law]

This one?  Right click on Ribbon, Customize User Command:

[SBix26]

At least in 2024 it's not there.  It appears to be a generic marking menu to go with any place/edit feature dialog.  You can find the same marking menu with Extrude, Fillet, etc in a part file.

Maybe @johnsonshiue knows more about this and how an app can reconfigure it.

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Sam B

Inventor Pro 2024 | Windows 10 Home 22H2

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Folks,

I am not aware of other means unfortunately.

Many thanks!

[Frederick_Law]

Which one you cannot find?

There was one I have to export, edit the file and import back.

[nbonnett-murphy]

Ah, I should have included a screenshot. This is the marking menu that I get if I right click after selecting both members of a constraint. Apply will confirm the constraint but not close the window so you can immediately apply another of the same type. As you can see, the axis/plane toggle add-in has moved the apply button, which is the only one that I mind being moved.

I did also contact the publisher of the add-in, but I was hoping it was something I could solve without them needing to do any changes.

Can you give me an outline of what you did to export/import? Are there plaintext config files? Or are you thinking I might find it in the xml config backups? I did a little ctrl-f in there, but I didn't immediately find anything related to "apply" or "mark".

 

[Frederick_Law]

On my screenshot, at the bottom, Import, Export.

You choice where Export to and it is text file.

I don't know if the addin change a menu or added it's own menu.

You could try search "show axes" <- axes? 🤣

Or show planes in the exported file.