Turn off view reorientation for sketching or extruding??

Sorry Paul. I was one of the silly people that requested this function. In my opinion it makes it easier for our new users starting out. I do agree that there should be away of turning it off.

Software rant:

Who cares about new users? I'd rather SW catered to people who've been using it 10 hours a day for long wnough to know what they're doing.

There are no training wheels on my bicycle, and I sure don't want them on the tools I use for work.

About catering to new users: Why design software for this tiny minority? Yes we were all new users at some point, but that 1% of my time with SW has passed. I don't mean that SW should be obtuse, but it shouldn't get in my way to cater to people who don't yet know what they're doing.

I agree the software should not get in the way of any user.

As far as who cares about new users, I do. I support my companies modeling, community nation wide. I am responsible for making sure that they have the tools that they need to get their jobs done. The tiny minority that you speak of will be the majority, here where I work, in the next couple of years as we migrate fully from 2D to 3D. In my opinion, like it or not, new users are the majority in the 3D modeling world.

Again as I stated before, there should be an option for toggling new features on and off and not forcing you to do it the new way.

myself and a few colleagues were just discussing this yesterday.

we talked about a sw lite version or a main switch in the current version to turn off the novice interface. kind of like windows did with xp (under display properties, appearance, you can set to windows classic and get rid of those ridiculous graphics that xp comes with) no offense to those who enjoy the default desktop of xp. sw started down this road with the file>new... dialog box, by including the novice and advanced radio button.

Or it could be implemented similar to the old AutoCAD "expert mode" switch. If I recall, the old AutoCAD "setvar" had several different levels that could be set. Sounds like a good enhancement request, let's submit it (as I'm sure others have).

Richard

Clearly a new 2D user attraction feature. Here 2D user... see, it's gui friendly...

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SWuser wrote:

Ok then, 20!! 8^)

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SWuser wrote:

There was a study done (by Boeing I think) a while back in which they concluded that 1/3 of the population naturally thinks in 3D (they go on to become great engineers) while another 1/3 of the population can be taught to think in 3D while the remaining

Seriously, they spent a lot of money on this.

It is this last 1/3 of the population that these new features are for in a hopeless attempt to convert them. I've had the misfortune of having to (try and) teach of few of them.

We all end up having to conform to the lowest common denominator. It's all part of the New World Order in which we are all too dumb to think for ourselves. Anyone showing signs of independent thinking will be shunned and told they have a disease and must take a pill for it.

OK that was my lame attempt at trying to sound like Michael Savage ;^)

Mike Wilson

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In my experience, that makes total sense!

Hey, that is somewhat true. A high percentage of humans prefer conformity,.. and the rest, well, some like to control.

Makes you wonder about the time Prozac was very popular!? Now what is popular?.. Paxil or Zoloft?

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Sorry but it sounded more like Ayn Rand or Fredrich Nietzsche to me.

Viva La Philosophy.

SMA

I've discovered something about this new feature. I'm using

The views will keep doing the autorotate dealy until there is a solid body in the Feature Manager.

This means that if your first feature is a solid, it will only happen once. If your features are surfaces, the autorotate dealy will keep happening over and over again. Also, if you make a planar surface it won't autorotate.

There's probably other quirks.

If you create your template with a solid body, you won't get the autorotate but as soon as you delete it, it's baaaack.

Mike Wilson

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Now I understand why everyone has such a problem with this. I generally do not create a lot of surfaces and when I do it is not the first features. Yes when creating the first solid it rotates and there after it does not. I have already entered in an enhancement for a checkbox setting in the system options to be able to turn this on or off.