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Alyssa Dipiero
Coming from F360 and Solidworks I am familiar with remapping keys to suit MY preferences. Having to remap RMB to F4 is a terrible alternative then the mouse will not function properly and you lose RMB. getting a trackball would be terrible for my autodesk inventor class we would need to spend another $100 for each student from our non-existent covid budget. They need one hand on the keyboard to quickly search information about what they are doing.
The only other alternative would be to teach them how to use the software in a clunky way you would never actually use it. It is extremely counterintuitive. Using the RMB and drag for rotate is a completely valid way to use the software until you are working at a very fast pace and utilizing the shortcuts, something that is not important for a beginner that is just learning simple features.
In Inventor go to the Tools tab, then Customize in the Options panel. On of the tabs in the Customize dialog box is Keyboard customization. Be aware you should check the current mapping before going hog wild.
Previously, I had SolidWorks set up so the arrow keys rotated at 5 increments. This was very helpful for that as well as very quick. Any time I wanted to preview the work, it took just a few seconds. In Inventor, it's just a guess, and it takes a bit longer to get the angle where it looks almost right.
In SolidWorks, hitting an arrow key rotates an assigned number of , SHIFT+ Arrow Key rotates 90, CTRL+Arrow Key Pans. This is extremely convenient. You don't understand how convenient until it's gone. Why isn't this functionality in Inventor? Arrow Keys can only pan. That really seems like a waste.
I would go into my template files and add workplanes to define the standard views. Then I would add a design view rep for each "standard" view. RMB on each view rep and use the "Camera View" menu pick to control the camera for that view. Every new model you create will have the "standard" views defined.
I understand the benefits of 3DConnexion space navigators but users like me aren't using only CAD throughout a common work day. My workflow requires me to alternate between Inventor, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, KeyShot, Powerpoint and PLM. I find the navigators and space mouse disrupt my workflow when quickly alternating between the different applications.
Why Inventor doesn't already enable this feature is disappointing. Users who don't require panning should be able to toggle to a rotational feature. Applications like SolidWorks allow this functionality, Inventor should too.
1. Adding sketches and planes for the view disrupts the document naming conventions, new sketches begin with Sketch2 while work planes begin with WorkPlane3 if two planes were used to created the view.
I know this has been "solved" but it would be nice to be able to rotate a part/assembly using the arrow keys on a keyboard. in my opinion, and i'm sorry if this offends anyone, but inventor has to be the most ignorant 3D cad software on the market. there are so many cumbersome things i could list, but i'm sure i'd run out of characters i could use. just the fact that one cant incrementally rotate a part/assembly with the keyboard is stupid. again, i'm sorry to offend, i just had to give my opinion.
Hi! Just an update on this topic, on Inventor 2021.1, you can configure Zoom, Orbit, and Pan buttons. Pressing middle mouse button enables Orbit command. I know this is not the same as the original thread and the proposed idea. I just want to bring some awareness about the enhancement.
and 5 years later where are we? ...
@johnsonshiue , I imagine you had nothing to do with it but it is better to do without putting forward this type of argument in this way, it has been more than a decade since it exists in others .. 10 years late it's not called a delay.
I know you are unhappy with the rate of the change in the product. I am not trying to convince you. I am just an engineer working hard to provide the best service that I can offer. Certainly, we can always move faster and we can always improve. Life isn't perfect. We have to live with imperfection.
Hi, don't worry I'm not criticizing your work as such, I salute him by the way, sorry for the misunderstanding, it's more the work of the product managers that I have a hard time understanding. I remain deeply amazed that a product that appears to perform as well as Inventor has such penalizing shortcomings in its user interface.
I had been using Solidworks since 2002 and in 2016 I decided to switch from windows to mac. This is how I came to use Fusion 360 which is native to MacOS. Unfortunately, trying to reinvent things they forgot for me the essential functions of cad software, not to mention the obsession with the cloud at a time when our machines have never been so powerful. So I stopped using it for my professional projects, despite everything I continued to search at Autodesk and I turned to Inventor which seems to meet all my expectations despite a user approach that is significantly obsolete in my eyes while its design is cool, in short, a real paradox.
What amazes me the most about discovering Inventor is not having found a product that is mature after more than 20 years of existence. I certainly lack perspective to have a real expertise on the subject, but that's what I felt during the first weeks of use. I hope your work and the future will prove me wrong.
Your feedback, positive or negative, is always welcome. We have quite a few former SWX users on the forum. I am aware that there are certain things in Inventor surprising users like you. The Rotate command, sketch orientation, having to project edges in a sketch, and a few others to say the least.
Inventor Ideas forum is just one of the several venues that we collect user requests. We run Inside the Factory events all year round around the world. At the annual Autodesk University, there are dedicated sessions to collect user feedback and conduct user research. If you are interested, I suggest you sign up Inventor Feedback Community ( ). You can try out the latest developing build on an install-free, browser based environment. You can give your feedback and suggestions to various forums. The product team members are eager to listen to you.
Long story short some control have lost their key frames in the timeline as well as channels in the graph editor. However, the animation still plays! The issue is I cannot change the location of the key via the timeline or the graph editor because it's as if they have vanished. Any solutions? I've attached a image as reference.
Yes for some controls the keys are still there! Just having an issue with a few of them being weird. For example, the hips, shoulders, head, elbow controls, eye controls, and knee controls. The main control I'm dying to edit is the one for the hips. Thanks for checking:)
Is there another way to select the control? Because every time I click on the shape it pulls up the "Cookies:Cereal:Kyle:spineMas_01_CON_hipSimple_shape" I can't seem to find it on the list of controls either on the left hand side of the screen in the tree view.
Thank you.
I have found some flaky issues with shortcut keys recently. I use them quite a bit, especially "E" for Extrude. Create a sketch, get done what I need, hit "E" and do my extrude. Then suddenly I hit "E" and nothing happens. No shortcut keys work after that. I can open a second session of Inventor and the shortcut keys work, go back to my first session.... nothing. Only way I have been able to fix this is restart Inventor. But this has been happening several times a week, sometimes several times a day. Not even sure what to look at to fix it as it's very random.
I had this exact thing happen to me. i believe i posted about it as well. I am not sure what finally reset it for me. but it has stopped. I do believe it was happening even after a few clean installs as well... I even reset the hot keys to be what i wanted, only to find they would disappear... so it may have been that specific file, or file based?... i will see if i can find any notes i may have made for the solution. The only thing i think i recall is that a PLUGIN i installed was hijacking the quick keys/shortcuts... you might want to unload your most recent plugin, or think about what you may have added/changed recently. lastly, (and i know its a typical thing said, that i get sick of hearing when i have a program bug/issue) is make sure you have the most up to date service pack... Not that it has solved any of the issues i have had with program bugs... ha
to add, i think the issue i had was pre-covid... after returning to work i have a new comp and havent had too many issues with inventor, other than the typical annoying bugs/program fails i have to work around...
Worked Friday afternoon without the shortcut keys blanking out on me, here it is 1:45PM on Monday and ZAP!!!, no more shortcut keys. Have been working fine all day and working on the same assembly the whole time. Was creating a new part and no more shortcut keys. Finishing up a sketch and hit "E" for extrude and Inventor just stares at me with that dumb look on its face like it doesn't understand what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately I will have to totally shut down Inventor and restart it to get them back. But pretty much can say that none of the Add-in's I disabled were the problem.... back at square one.
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