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Ability to turn off persistent Sketch tab in IV2015

Ability to turn off persistent Sketch tab in IV2015

The always-visible Sketch tab in IV2015 has affected the use of certain keyboard shortcuts due to duplicate commands.  For example, the "C" key once performed both the Center Point Circle function in Sketch mode and the Constraint function in Assembly mode.  Since the Sketch tab is always visible, my imported shortcuts are causing a problem:  Inventor doesn't know which command I'm requesting and needs further input from the user ("Command alias input" at the bottom of the screen).  This requires extra keypresses and really slows down my workflow.

 

I have been using Inventor for years and many of these commands have become like muscle memory, so simply changing the shortcuts is not preferred (Autodesk seems to have done this for the above example, since the Center Point Circle command now defaults to "CTRL+SHIFT+C").  Adding more shortcuts, as they've done with the SP1 release for the text annotation commands, doesn't properly address the problem either.

 

I probably constrain a thousand features for every 2D sketch I create in Assembly mode.  For those of us who don't need redundant sketch commands at our fingertips, it would be helpful to have the ability to turn off the persistent Sketch tab.

 

Link to a related discussion on here (I'm not alone):  2015 Bugs with Sketch tab always being visible

3 Comments
Anonymous
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I just encountered another issue with having a persistent Sketch tab: the Fillet keyboard shortcut doesn't work properly.  Both the "solid" and "sketch" fillet command use the same keystroke (F), so Inventor doesn't know which one to use.  Since there's never a case now when the silly Sketch tab isn't visible, this behavior never goes away.

 

As before, changing the shortcut is not a realistic option.  It's ridiculous to think that I need to define two unique keystrokes for the same command, when previous versions of Inventor knew which function to invoke.  As a side note, I've been using IV 2015 now for about a month... and I haven't encountered a situation where the persistent Sketch tab would save any time.  Keyboard shortcuts?  I use them every single day.

Anonymous
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I completely agree with all of the annoyances found here.  It would be great if the keyboard short cut of "C" for both circle and constraint worked the way they did in all previous releases of Inventor.

 

I would also agree that the persistent sketch tab does not add anything to the experience.  There is no added functionality to having it.

DouweAttema
Community Visitor

 I also agree. why can't we just disable the sketch environment in the assembly environment. this bug is almost regretting me upgrading to 2016...

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