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When you click on a face in a part, I would like the feature to automatically highlight in the model tree. Currently, if you don't know how the part was created you have to cycle thru the features until you see it highlight on the model. A "find in model tree" could also be used.
This may not be EXACTLY what you want it to do, but I think it's pretty close, and may be better than how you're dealing with this now.
Much of what you want actually does happen if you use the Feature selection filter instead of the default "Faces and Edges" filter. Switch this using the dropdown in the Quick Access Toolbar (top of the Inventor window) or by shift + right-click. Once you are in this mode, selecting features will highlight the corresponding feature in the browser, and there will be a Find in Browser available on the right-click menu.
This is a good suggestion. I think Inventor should have a "upper-level" highlight style that looks slightly different from the normal highlight, and tells you "the thing you have selected is CONTAINED by this". This would be extremely handy for tracking down where something is in the Browser.
For example, selecting a Part which is inside of a sub-assembly which is inside of a Pattern would highlight the Pattern using the "upper-level" highlight style (maybe it could be a blue box rather than a full highlight, similar to the red box when pre-selected). And expanding the Pattern would reveal the containing Assembly highlighted using the upper-level highlight style. Finally, expanding that would reveal the Part selected.
Same for faces/features in Parts. Selecting a face would highlight the containing feature using the upper-level highlight style, so that you can easily find which feature contains it but without the misconception that you selected the feature rather than the face.
(tagging voters of this idea in case you want to vote on the linked idea: @jtylerbc, @-niels-, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @jeremy_wasserstrass, @Anonymous). Thanks!
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As a long-time user of another widely used 3D CAD software I am used to, when working in assembly, selecting a part and seeing it highlighted in the model tree/browser. If the tree is long enough that it needs scrolling to see all of it, the part is highlight and the tree automatically moves to make the part visible.
When working with a part, I can click on any face, edge, body, etc and it should highlight the corresponding feature and move the tree as outlined above.
I am so frustrated by needing to use a selection filter. Why do we need to select a filter to specify a face, body, surface, edge, etc., and maybe get what I am looking for highlighted in a visible spot on the browser tree. I would like to see it work so that I click on the part, face, edge etc. and see it in the Browser Tree, without having to RC and do an additional command.
I would also like that feature, I have just started using Inventor again after several years in Solidworks and Creo, where this is a common feature. What does you guys from Autodesk think of it ?
When set the feature as top selection priority, the browser node will be highlighted when selecting feature in graphic window. But only the first level of feature node will be highlighted, and the feature node under solid or somewhere will not be highlighted. Do you want to highlight all the feature nodes related to the selected feature?
