Disable Engineers Notebook in Inventor

[TGibson7A8HD]

Seriously, how do you disable it? 

Second forum post. 

[Gabriel_Watson]

Right-click delete your note on the browser?

EDIT: to hide, see the solution in the comment below by @Frederick_Law 

[Frederick_Law]

You can hide them:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-2CDC98BA-E201-47AD-B3ED-72FA4994DB9E

[Frederick_Law]

What happened?

Someone put notes everywhere?

[TGibson7A8HD]

It prompts itself open all the time and crashes my system, its not the notes but the whole notebook. 

There is no key-binding listed in the customization panel to disable or unbind it anywhere. 

I have a long thread post where Autodesk employees confirmed a bunch of keyshort cut bugs, the engineering notebook being one of them. 

[TGibson7A8HD]

I need to disable the notebook, not delete a note. 

[Frederick_Law]

I can only find one way to open the Note, right click menu on the assembly name on top of tree.

And shortcut is "C".

Can't find it anywhere else.

[Frederick_Law]

I've addin that replace command on the ribbon.

Don't know if I can find command in drop down menu.

Notebook is not an addin.

[Frederick_Law]

Maybe possible to block the command:

[pcrawley]

Which version of Inventor are you running?

Nb.dll is responsible for Engineers Notebook.  Disabling it, or not loading it through the use of options via the appropriate xml configuration file leaves Inventor effectively unusable.  @TGibson7A8HD - I've sent you a pm on the subject.

Blocking it looks like an option (Event Watcher is only installed with the developer tools). @Frederick_Law Have you tried it?  It's a feature of Inventor I can definately live without.

Have you identified what sequence of events lead up to "It prompts itself open all the time and crashes my system"?  It would be great to find a repeatable sequence of events the developers could block or at least fix the crash.

A few released back, Engineers Notebook was very close on the menus to something like "New Sketch" and I was forever creating unwanted notes - but it's certainly much harder to accidentally launch in 2023 or 2024.

[Frederick_Law]

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@pcrawley wrote:

Blocking it looks like an option (Event Watcher is only installed with the developer tools). @Frederick_Law Have you tried it?  It's a feature of Inventor I can definately live without.

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Might need to catch OnActivateCommand event and cancel the command.

I was trying to replace it with another.

I don't understand how it can activate "accidentally".

Someone need to right click to bring the menu up and press C twice then Enter.

[Frederick_Law]

I changes the Shortcut, it won't respond to it:

[Frederick_Law]

Oh $hit, see if this works:

Sub Main()
Dim controlDefs As ControlDefinitions
Dim IVEngVNotebookDef As ControlDefinition

controlDefs = ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions
For Each controlDef In ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions
	If (controlDef.InternalName = "NotebookCreateNoteCtxCmd") Then
		IVEngVNotebookDef = controlDef
		Logger.Info("Found!")
		Logger.Info(controlDef.DisplayName)
		Logger.Info(controlDef.InternalName)
		IVEngVNotebookDef.OverrideShortcut = "Disabled"
		IVEngVNotebookDef.Enabled = False
	End If
Next
End Sub

[Frederick_Law]

There are a few more related commands to disable:

NotebookAlignLeftCmd
NotebookAlignRightCmd
NotebookArrangeNotesPopupCmd
NotebookArrowCmd
NotebookArrowReverseCtxCmd
NotebookBoldCmd
NotebookBulletsCmd
NotebookCenterCmd
NotebookCreateNoteCtxCmd
NotebookCustomizeCmd
NotebookDefineNewNoteFolderCtxCmd
NotebookDisplayNoteCtxCmd
NotebookFinishNotebookCmd
NotebookFontCmd
NotebookFontSizeCmd
NotebookInsertCommentCmd
NotebookInsertFolderCmd
NotebookInsertNewObjectCmd
NotebookInsertViewCmd
NotebookItalicCmd
NotebookNextNoteCmd
NotebookPreviousNoteCmd
NotebookRestoreCamerasCmd
NotebookShowInstanceNotesCtxCmd
NotebookTextColorCmdImage
NotebookUnderlineCmd
NotebookViewFreezeCmd

[TGibson7A8HD]

I am using 2021,

 I do use a lot of key binds, so my guess is if the mouse drifts over to the tree and I hit C, it prompts the switch to the ENG NB. For some reason that jumps the resources being used on the computer when it gets prompted.  Sometimes for constraint, sometimes for copy. 

Im not exactly sure when and where its happening, but my ENG NB opens up a lot when I'm trying to do something else and the aforementioned issue is caused. 

[Frederick_Law]

BTW

Export setting won't save the "Notebook Disable".