Auto resizing dialogue boxes

Auto resizing dialogue boxes

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Auto resizing dialogue boxes

fridtjofZM5ME
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Hi everyone, does any of you know if/how you can set Inventor to auto resize dialogue boxes, such as the "Edit Dimension" box in the sketch environment

 

Most of my parameters are driven by a spread sheet that I've made where I try to give them descriptive names, even if they tend to get long as a result. This sometimes makes the expression in the edit boxes too long to fit in the default size box, so I have to drag it longer to see the whole thing, and then it stays that way until I make it shorter again when the annuisance of the check box being too far to the right gets too overwhelming.

 

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WCrihfield
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I know what you mean.  I've wished for, and looked into that before too.  Unfortunately, that's a purely Autodesk behind-the-scenes type stuff.  I've also wanted to be able to specify the size of (or auto resize) the MessageBox, MsgBox, InputBox, InputListBox, InputRadioBox, etc. to a greater extent (as well as a lot more text formatting capabilities within them), to no avail.  I did create a post on Inventor Ideas site for the msgbox stuff, but didn't mention the edit dimension text box.  I also work with a lot of very descriptively named parameters, and attempt to do complex math within those dimension text boxes, which sometimes ends up going across most of my screen.  Then the next 5 dimensions I edit are something like 5, 123, 78.375, 1, etc.

I've never heard of any way to control the size of that specific text entry box.

Wesley Crihfield

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(Not an Autodesk Employee)

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