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Eliminate extra "Create" step when creating Ordinate Set dimensions

Eliminate extra "Create" step when creating Ordinate Set dimensions

When adding dimensions to an existing Ordinate Set, the workflow is:

  1. Select something you want to dimension to.
  2. A dimension is added for that geometry.
  3. Repeat as necessary.
  4. Hit escape when finished.
  5. The command is exited.

However, if you perform that same sequence of steps when creating an Ordinate Set, the behavior will be exactly the same up until step 5, at which point, instead of just exiting the command, every dimension you've created up to that point will disappear and all of your work will be lost.

 

Please fix this. Hitting "Escape" when you're done with a command (one that lets you keep adding things until you're done) shouldn't undo everything you've done up to that point.

 

I propose that as soon as you place the origin member of an Ordinate Set, this should implicitly "Create" the set, and from that point on the command should be in "Add Member" mode, so that hitting "Escape" simply stops adding members rather than erasing all the members you've created.

6 Comments
Raygn
Contributor

@DRoam... this is such a frustrating extra step.

 

Remove the create!

Remove the create!

Remove the create!

 

If the UI Designer was walking down the same street as I... I would be compelled to slap them.

DRoam
Mentor

@Raygn Lol. In a polite and professional manner, I assume?

Raygn
Contributor

Indeed... maybe a humerous old school silk glove taken from the Rennaissance.

Yijiang.Cai
Autodesk
Status changed to: Future Consideration

Many thanks for posting the idea to us, and tracked as [INVGEN-48085]

Yijiang.Cai
Autodesk
Status changed to: Accepted
 
dan_szymanski
Autodesk
Status changed to: Implemented

This idea has been implemented within Autodesk Inventor 2023.2. Please review the Inventor 2023.2 What's New article here, for more information regarding how ordinate sets, baseline and baseline sets have been enhanced. Special thanks to everyone who cast a vote for it.

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