Make the Document Settings more accessible

[DRoam]

Currently, to access a component's Document Settings, we have to first open the file, then go to the Tools tab, and then click the Document Settings button. Most people don't even know these settings exist.

Together, the Document Settings and iProperties make up the fundamental properties of a file, and as such they should be accessible in all of the same places, as shown here:

I can't tell you how many times I've tried going to the File menu to open the Document Settings, or tried to right-click a part from within an Assembly to access its Document Settings so I can change its default BOM structure or "Adaptivity Used in Assembly" setting.

Making the Document Settings accessible from these locations not only makes sense, it would also make accessing them much faster, especially when having to do so for multiple files.

[mcgyvr]

out of curiosity.. Why do you need to modify the document settings so often?

I can probably count on my hands the number of times I've actually needed to go to document settings for parts.. (13+ year Inventor user)

iprops sure.. But document settings? 

[DRoam]

It's definitely used less than iProperties, yes. But I do use it regularly, especially when constructing Adaptive assemblies. I most often access the Document Settings (or try to) from an Assembly when trying to un-check the "Adaptivity used in assembly" setting. Not something I do every day, but it's a very clumsy interruption of workflow to try to do that by right-clicking and then have to open the part, go to Tools, click document settings, do my thing, then close the file when I'm done, when I should be able to do it right from the Assembly like I can with iProperties.

Same thing for the BOM structure. I pretty much never think while I'm in a part/Assembly itself, "Hey, I need to change the BOM structure". I think of that at the upper Assembly level. So it would be nice to be able to just right-click and go to Document Settings like we can with iProperties.

Finally, just because it's not accessed often doesn't mean it shouldn't be accessible from those places. I definitely think it belongs there. For the sake of a well-rounded interface, I think it needs to be accessible from the places that the iProperties are.

Thanks for the input.

[mjordan4]

In the meantime, it sounds like your frustrations may be solved by creating a few simple ilogic routines to toggle the settings of a selected part from the assembly file or for the current file if no parts/sub-assemblies are selected.