Redundant resizing and repositioning of all common window palettes is inefficient
Attributes
Snapping
Resource Manager
Object Info
Navigation
Visualization
Basic
Tool Sets
Preview Features
Redundant editing of a single hotkey across mulitple workspaces (instead of just doing this once) is inefficient – why is this even edited here instead of VW Prefs?
Architect BIM
Architect
Braceworks
ConnectCAD
Designer
Fundamentals
Landmark
Spotlight
(popular third party plugins)
Discovering / knowing / remembering which tools are available in which workspace
Can I ignore the Spotlight workspace if I'm using the Braceworks workspace?
Switching between workspaces, primarily to access a single Menu in the Menu Bar is jarring and interrupts / slows workflow
Having to remember which workspace you're working in as you switch back and forth
Editing workspaces is painful
Cannot drag toolsets
Have to create a toolset (with no icon)
Can only drag one tool at a time (possible user error)
Have to recreate menus in the same manner which gets really complicated (possible user error)
Solutions to the issues above:
A single consistent workspace
Replace workspaces with menus in the menu bar
I full understand / appreciate / respect the challenge of organizing tools in the "a la carte" manner that users have purchased or subscribed. Therefore, short of a complete rewrite, I see a triage approach to solving these issues:
Short Term Must-Haves - v2021 SP3
Save all palette (and windows) positions / sizes across workspaces
Don't make me resize / reposition the Attributes palette 8+ times
This has become especially painful with all of the killer customization added in v2021 (tear-away tabs, docking) that is lost when we switch workspaces
Move Workspace Editor / Keys (hotkeys) to VW Prefs (there's no reason any of these settings would change from workspace to workspace)
Don't make me edit 8+ workspaces to change the hotkey for Launch Quick Search
Short Term Nice-To-Haves - v2021 SP3
Drag toolsets from the master library (or another workspace) to the custom edited workspace
Long Term Must-Haves - v2022
Eliminate workspaces altogether (replaced with the menu solution above)
I realize that pace is ambitious but the UI improvements in v2021 are super slick nice-to-haves on the surface. Improving the current UI/UX of bolting on workspace after workspace is a must-have under the hood. In other words, when I draw an outdoor concert, I use every single workspace (except Fundamentals), so streamlining that workflow is a top priority for me. Honestly, if all of these proposed solutions (thought-starters for now) came to VW22, that would be epic.
As VW continues to acquire great partner products, and third party developers continue to write great plug-ins, the current UI/UX that VW is rapidly outgrowing will continue to get clunkier and weigh it down.
That said, everyone, please keep the criticism constructive, the conversation positive, productive and solutions-oriented (for both Mac & Windows users). 😎
Thank you, VW team, for implementing improvements based on user feedback as demonstrated by the many UI/UX improvements in v2021!
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Mark Aceto
@Ian Lane starting a fresh thread about unifying a single workspace that adds Menus in the Menu Bar for each modality (FKA "workspace").
Past discussions linked here.
Issues with current workspace implementation:
Solutions to the issues above:
I full understand / appreciate / respect the challenge of organizing tools in the "a la carte" manner that users have purchased or subscribed. Therefore, short of a complete rewrite, I see a triage approach to solving these issues:
I realize that pace is ambitious but the UI improvements in v2021 are super slick nice-to-haves on the surface. Improving the current UI/UX of bolting on workspace after workspace is a must-have under the hood. In other words, when I draw an outdoor concert, I use every single workspace (except Fundamentals), so streamlining that workflow is a top priority for me. Honestly, if all of these proposed solutions (thought-starters for now) came to VW22, that would be epic.
As VW continues to acquire great partner products, and third party developers continue to write great plug-ins, the current UI/UX that VW is rapidly outgrowing will continue to get clunkier and weigh it down.
That said, everyone, please keep the criticism constructive, the conversation positive, productive and solutions-oriented (for both Mac & Windows users). 😎
Thank you, VW team, for implementing improvements based on user feedback as demonstrated by the many UI/UX improvements in v2021!
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