"Undo" Should be per Active File

[Anonymous]

I'm working with several files opened at same time. Parts, Assembly and Drawing Layouts.

What I did;

1- On drawing page I added some general dimensions (or whatever)

2- Change active file, the part for the drawing I am currently working on.

3- Modify length of the part.

4- Come back to drawing page, making it active.

5- While drawing is active, if I hit undo now, it will revert modification done in previous file that is still open but not active.

I think it would be better if undo was limited to current active file, or undo memory split between active files. As it is right now, I may undo stuff from parts and assemblies while only seeing under my eyes a drawing layout on my screen.

I think this is problematic especially since by default Inventor has the undo command in every possible marking menu context. Undo is really easy to miss click when using allot of marking menu and since it can undo stuff in another inactive file, chances are I won't even realise that I "undid" anything at all.

[stuartmp]

I completely agree, "Undo" Should be per Active File

Its a real pain to work out how to undo something if you have may files open and have made changes on some of them, then all of a sudden

you realise that's not going to work, so you want to undo that part only meanwhile you have made other changes to other parts which you want to keep.

Then you have to save the files you want to keep, making sure you don't accidentally save the file you wish to undo.

Then you need to close all files and re-open your model to see if the part you want to revert back because you can't "Undo" per active file

is not saved and if it is you need to then restore from previous versions etc.

Great Idea.

[mwighton]

It would be nice if the undo button undid only the changes made to the currently viewed document rather than the program as a whole.

[NeilClasby75]

Hi

I know where you're coming from here, and don't disagree, but I actually find it pretty handy when if undoes every document step.

Maybe two undo options to cover both?

Regards, Neil.

[DRoam]

I agree with Neil. Sometimes I do want to undo just a single document, but sometimes I want to undo changes that occurred across multiple documents. Not sure if it's practical, but the option for either would be nice.

[asiu]

Can I vote 100 times?

[DRoam]

Looks like this is a duplicate of this idea: "Undo" Should be per Active File

The other is the original and has a more descriptive title--but this one currently has more votes.

[Anonymous]

This was painful back in '08, and before. It's still painful today.

[Genicee]

I think this could be done. It would be nice to have a toggle between the current undo structure and the new way as suggested per active document.

[Anonymous]

What is very sad, is that I posted this in 2014...

Still getting likes for it... so probleme isn't yet fixed...

[patruc]

How many votes does it take to get Inventor to do what it should have done from the beginning? Do the right thing: just make the change Inventor.

Meanwhile, Inventor sits on billions of dollars in profit, but they can't afford to hire some decent software engineers?

I wish "undo" could apply to the decision to purchase Inventor's amateurish software.

[phlyx]

Was just about to post this same thing to UNDO this silliness.  Was working in two different top level machine assemblies and had deleted a part out of each, then in one of them inserted the new part, set all the constraints, manipulated some other part locations, altered some guarding and some other needed tasks.  Switched to the other top level machine and realized I had deleted the wrong part (isn't that what UNDO is for?).  Couldn't remember the part number of what I deleted so I hit UNDO and it started UNDOing all the work I did in the other top level.  

Autodesk, PUH-lease fix this as UNDO should not involve switching documents.  😡   

COME ON PEOPLE, VOTE (as many times as you can, this is America).

[chenj]

When I edit more than two documents at the same time and need to undo the operation in Part1, I need to undo the operation in part2 first, which is very inconvenient. What I need is that each document can be undo and redo separately.

[K.TRYFONIDIS]

Same problem here. Had been working on two parts simultaneously and in two screens, did a mistake at one couldn't undo file specific changes. Upvoting.

[OK_BOOMER]

I was just staggered when I first encountered that Undo is global, not local to the active file being edited. This is downright irresponsible.

[EdvinTailwind]

YES! This is one of the most annoying things in Inventor. Please make the action history separate for each file. I seriously can't think of any other software, major or independent, that has this kind of configuration. It's like writing text on two different papers, and when you start erasing a typo on paper A it removes the last written word on paper B. 

[Genicee]

EDIT: DELETE

[ProductivCADUser]

This suggestion dates back to 2014. 10 years from now, how fast time runs 🙂

What is the current status?

I was somewhat surprised to find out Inventor behaves as described here. I don't know of any program that has implemented the undo function in this way.

I think that nowadays most users intuitively expect an undo function per active file.
It is a general language, so to speak, just as X stands for closing the active program window (and not another one...).

In principle, this is not a problem, as Inventor switches to the view of the part where the undo function is executed.
The problem is in particular: Inventor changes the view and shows the part “already changed”, so that the inexperienced user has no chance to realize that he has just undone a step. Knowing that this program behavior is rather unusual.

[stuartmp]

Yes, 10 years ago hence why I don't bother with making vaild suggestions any more. You think Autodesk would pay more attention to people like me who have been using the software for 24 years now as opposed to someone that barley know the software and is making a request for something because they may not full understand all the functionality of the software.