Some feature requests for optimizing workflow
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:15 pm
Hi all! First off thanks for the awesome program, together with our plasma table it let my wife & I quit our full time jobs & work together and for that I'm very thankful. I have a few things I'd like to suggest (or be taught how to use them if they're already there & I've overlooked! Though I did search a bit so I don't believe I've missed anything)
- Some versions ago, any part duplicates that are daughters/children of the master copy were automatically hidden. Now it seems it defaults to an exploded view showing them all. Is there a way to configure my software to go back to hiding them? I find it clogs my part list and I spend un-needed time collapsing the exploded views.
-A hot key for new tool operation would be amazing! Right now I have to move the mouse over to symbol & click it, or into the general tool operation area & right click and select the symbol with the mouse. If this could just be done by pressing a key (bonus points if the key is user configurable) that would be awesome. And to make things even faster, if "OK" in the tool operation window is already highlighted, so all I have to do is pound the enter button. It gets a bit tedious/wastes time that could be better spent around the shop when I have to keep precisely mouse selecting 2 different little symbols every cut operation for a sheet with 40 different parts which all use clones of the same tool, if it could just be a 2 key affair that would be wonderful!
-Kinda the same thing as above, but what about CTRL & click all the parts you'd like to have the same operation applied to, & then setting a cut operation, & it automatically applies it to every part. Probably more programming on your end, which is why I bring this up 2ndly.
-Inserting multiple parts in one go. I click "new part" find it in my file directory & add. Some of our product is sold as one item, but is a combination of 4 different parts or whatever which all make up the assembly of the product. They're all saved in the same file directory, but I have to manually add them one-by-one. Can it be changed so I can CTRL + click all of them, & all 4 items (or whatever number of files) are automatically inserted?
That's all I've come up with! Looking forward to your thoughts, or any ideas on stuff I may be over looking! Thank you!
- Some versions ago, any part duplicates that are daughters/children of the master copy were automatically hidden. Now it seems it defaults to an exploded view showing them all. Is there a way to configure my software to go back to hiding them? I find it clogs my part list and I spend un-needed time collapsing the exploded views.
-A hot key for new tool operation would be amazing! Right now I have to move the mouse over to symbol & click it, or into the general tool operation area & right click and select the symbol with the mouse. If this could just be done by pressing a key (bonus points if the key is user configurable) that would be awesome. And to make things even faster, if "OK" in the tool operation window is already highlighted, so all I have to do is pound the enter button. It gets a bit tedious/wastes time that could be better spent around the shop when I have to keep precisely mouse selecting 2 different little symbols every cut operation for a sheet with 40 different parts which all use clones of the same tool, if it could just be a 2 key affair that would be wonderful!
-Kinda the same thing as above, but what about CTRL & click all the parts you'd like to have the same operation applied to, & then setting a cut operation, & it automatically applies it to every part. Probably more programming on your end, which is why I bring this up 2ndly.
-Inserting multiple parts in one go. I click "new part" find it in my file directory & add. Some of our product is sold as one item, but is a combination of 4 different parts or whatever which all make up the assembly of the product. They're all saved in the same file directory, but I have to manually add them one-by-one. Can it be changed so I can CTRL + click all of them, & all 4 items (or whatever number of files) are automatically inserted?
That's all I've come up with! Looking forward to your thoughts, or any ideas on stuff I may be over looking! Thank you!