Inventor 2019- PREVIOUS SELECTION doesn't work

[Anonymous]

Hi there everybody!

I just installed a new Inventor 2019 and noticed that one very important feature doesn't seem to work- PREVIOUS SELECTION button.

It is very useful when creating different View Representations. But somehow it doesn't seem to work.

Can anybody check if theirs is working?

BR/

Vadim.

[jhackney1972]

I have Inventor 2019.0.1 installed.  The function "Previous Selection" functions normally.

[Anonymous]

What I figured is that PREVIOUS SELECTION works, but not the same way it used to work before, making it absolutely useless actually...

The way it works with me now: let's say I have 4 components in the assembly, I then select 2 of them. Now I can INVERT SELECTION, when I do that- I then can click on PREVIOUS SELECTION. Then it works.

But After I clicked on INVERT SELECTION, then PREVIOUS SELECTION function is not much different from INVERT SELECTION. Anyway, when I choose two of the components and then click on INVERT SELECTION, I then want to turn off thhose components visilibity. Then I want to click on PREVIOS SELECTION to select those components that I had turned visibility off and then afterward I I could INVERT SELECTION to chose two other components in the assembly to toggle their visilibity in the new VIEW REPRESENTATION.

something like this ...

Kind difficult to explain. probably I will need to take a screencast.

[Anonymous]

There is another weird thing. When for example I have some of the components with turned off visilibity and then I select all visible components and then click on INVERT SELECTION- it supposed to select those components that are not visible, but it doesn't.

Am I missing something? Is there now somewhere an option for being able to use Selection tools on components that are not visible?

[jhackney1972]

The process you describe here, works perfectly.  See screencast.  You can also use the "Find" command to also find components by visibility.

[Anonymous]

WHat you show there works fine. But it's another issue I am referring to, here is my screencast:

https://autode.sk/2lXDR6W

kelly.young has embedded your screencast for clarity.

[Anonymous]

Here is a real life example:

[kelly.young · Accepted solution]

Hello @Anonymous I forwarded the issue to the development team and it has been logged as INVGEN-17486. 

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[Anonymous]

Thank you very much!

[Anonymous]

Dear Kelly,

I don't see any open suport cases. Could you please check that up for me?

It is this account that has registered Autocad account that I am working from with Inventor.

Vadim.

[kelly.young]

Hello @Anonymous the status is still open and being worked on, there was activity this morning so it is still being assigned and investigating the best way to resolve. I am following it so if there is a change I will try to report back here when it is updated or resolved if possible. 

This issue was reported by an employee internally, unless the ticket was started and reported by a customer it is not linked to a case so it won't show a status.

The best way to check on this case in the future would be to Contact Support to inquire further. 

Please select the Accept as Solution button if a post solves your issue or answers your question.