shorter Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 (edited) Who would like the shortcut for 'Constrained Linear Dimension' to be 'D' and not 'N'? Simple Y/N answer will suffice. :-) Edited November 8, 2023 by shorter Quote Link to comment
0 Tom W. Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 Don't understand the question. There are five tools which generate Dimension objects Quote Link to comment
0 shorter Posted November 8, 2023 Author Share Posted November 8, 2023 Constrained Linear Dimension is currently 'N'... ? Why? Why is it not 'D'? Quote Link to comment
0 Amanda McDermott Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 1 hour ago, shorter said: Constrained Linear Dimension is currently 'N'... ? Why? Why is it not 'D'? Mine is D...maybe we've changed it to that, do you know you can personalise your shortcuts? 1 Quote Link to comment
0 bob cleaver Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 Use the workspace editor to change the key for any tool - Quote Link to comment
0 shorter Posted November 9, 2023 Author Share Posted November 9, 2023 Of course… I am a reseller and cad manager for vectorworks offices in the U.K. and build many custom workspaces and plug-ins for my clients. Fair to say I am fairly familiar with that option. I am talking about out of the box for those that don’t know who to edit or em get frustrated that every time a new version comes out they have to start all over again with a new workspace with shortcuts they feel should be more logical and often complain at how illogical short cuts are in vectorworks. 2 for Line? Why not L? Etc etc Quote Link to comment
0 shorter Posted November 9, 2023 Author Share Posted November 9, 2023 Oh and ps we consider it bad practice in larger offices to change pre-existing shortcuts because we have enough to do training staff how to use the software properly in large teams and stop bad habits that re-training them to use new shortcuts causes a huge amount of confusion and is frankly a waste of time, hence we think certain shortcuts should be changed to be more logical out of the box. we only apply an overlay of short(er) cuts to the existing set. We do admit though that it would not be easy agreeing which default shortcuts to use! Quote Link to comment
0 _James Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 I would say yes. I think there are lots of things one could change to make it more intuitive, this one included. Sketchup does a much better job of this but then they have maybe 10% of the tools Vectorworks has? I've never understood why we need a "constrained linear dimension" and an "unconstrained linear dimension". In my opinion we should just have "unconstrained linear dimension" and hold alt to make it constrained. Fewer tools please! 2 Quote Link to comment
0 Tom W. Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 18 minutes ago, _James said: I've never understood why we need a "constrained linear dimension" and an "unconstrained linear dimension". In my opinion we should just have "unconstrained linear dimension" and hold alt to make it constrained. This was discussed recently + I totally agree the two tools should be combined. Can't find the thread now... 3 Quote Link to comment
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Who would like the shortcut for 'Constrained Linear Dimension' to be 'D' and not 'N'? Simple Y/N answer will suffice. :-)
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