Revision: please see this thread for our up-to-date thinking on the assembly constraint dialog.
This is for Assembly Constraints. As we start adding new constraints, we're rethinking the dialog(s) - ideally unifying them into one. If anyone has any ideas on what they want to see, please let me know.
Specifically - I'm asking for User Interface (e.g. "Why are there 2 dialogs" or "I can't tell which one to use") and User Experience (e.g. "Accepting/Denying constraints with a button is annoying") for this particular exercise. Stuff that can be changed via a change to dialog layout, interaction paradigm, etc. Though feel free to voice functionality improvements like "I want a constraint that does X". Most likely, the functionality changes will not be for v21.
Summary of suggestions aligned with this question:
Summary of 2D sketching constraint suggestions that will likely not be addressed for v21, but are great candidates for the future:
This is for Assembly Constraints. As we start adding new constraints, we're rethinking the dialog(s) - ideally unifying them into one. If anyone has any ideas on what they want to see, please let me know.
Specifically - I'm asking for User Interface (e.g. "Why are there 2 dialogs" or "I can't tell which one to use") and User Experience (e.g. "Accepting/Denying constraints with a button is annoying") for this particular exercise. Stuff that can be changed via a change to dialog layout, interaction paradigm, etc. Though feel free to voice functionality improvements like "I want a constraint that does X". Most likely, the functionality changes will not be for v21.
Summary of suggestions aligned with this question:
- Make sure all input fields don't have leading spaces.
- Mouse-gestures/clicks of some kind that accept/deny the proposed constraint
- (Clarification needed) have a "Constraint Identity" field that may be simply filled in
- (See discussion below) Don't require the input box to lose focus before applying the value
- Make the constraint reversible/undoable with one click instead of (in the main one) having to exit, delete, and then get back into constraints. The quick constraint was OK, but The main one has all the possibilities and is more convenient other than the undo.
Summary of 2D sketching constraint suggestions that will likely not be addressed for v21, but are great candidates for the future:
- In general, sketch aids/operations that align, center, or other arrange features - like other cad programs have.
- In general, add "snap to" sketch aids, such as snap to midpoint, intersection, tangent, corner, end, centerpoint, etc., again, like other programs have, such as Turbocad, Rhino, etc. These would not replace contraints, dimensions, or parametrics, but would only enhance and speed up sketching operations.
- Tangent Constrains between Spline and lines or curves.
- Dynamic sketch offsets/patterns
- A constraint to allow centering of an object between two others, kind of a mirror of the symmetric constraint. An example would be centering a circle between two lines in a rectangle
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