Avoiding accidental exit (or accidentally confirming) changes

MDesign

Notice the little restore dialog after canceling a change I decided I didn't want and a thought occured to me that if these two buttons weren't quite so close together. it might make the restore feature less relevant. Minor improvement idea

billy2

You get use to it…

Actually, since OS is async, the commands are sent when they change not when you hit the green button. The X will reset all changes made.

If you want to go fast, just double click features in the feature tree and blast through your changes. You have to realize this system is non-blocking. You can go as fast as you can and OS will catch up. Not everything is async though, but most of it is. They're using sockets which is a bi-directional link between you & OS. If you get a congested pipeline, the esc clears it all out. I'd love to know how they're managing the socket. I'm very impressed, it's really well done.

What happens when there are 2 connected to the same element? Meteor was the 1st cloud collaborator and they watched who was writing to the database and then broadcasting to all other subscribers over the socket. Collaboration is truly magical and brought to you through the use of sockets.

Take it out for a spin and remember, this ain't your grandma's Buick.

It's tedious to watch youtube videos and people are clicking "ok" all the time like it was a crappy old windows program.

MDesign

Interesting. I followed about half of that… ha. How they do what they do is a mystery to me and I'm quite impressed too… been using for a few months now.

Until the buttons go away that's not likely to change people's habits. old habit die hard, can't teach an old dog new tricks, or fill in applicable cliche.

billy2

This is a new thing built around javascript. I haven't pushed that green checkbox for a long time. I do push OS a lot and it's really fast to get things done.

billy2

Here, I'm done with the sketch:

You can now:

-click the greenbutton

or

-double click on Extrude 39

You don't have to click the greenbutton:

When you're done editing the extrude, Double click Mutual trim 5. You don't have to click the greenbutton.

And….. old dogs can learn new tricks, this old dog just taught you a new trick.

The cloud is different from that old traditional program. There's a flood of information flowing back and forth between your client & the servers with an amazing thing, they manage that traffic very well.

Please remember to be nice to old dogs.

MDesign

I was mearly referring to the general population status quo old dogs and your tedious comment. I am a semi old dog as well and love learning new things. So it wasn't an attack on old dogs. 😂 Just the ones that refuse to learn.

You should make your own YouTube video highlighting the absurdity of clicking the green check box.

billy2

I was joking about old dogs. There's a lot of bad habits that need changing.

OS is different in many ways and I think these guys have done a great job of beating out the desktop world. They've always said they would be faster than the desktop and I believe they are. You just have to find some nuggets.

-The drag n drops works amazingly well and manipulating the feature tree is a dream compared to desktop equivalents.

-The cut n paste is extremely power and more useful then the desktop equivalents.

-Selection of items, this & that and then shift select.

-No files.

-And then async, no body knows what this means async link

There will be other CAD system in the cloud and OS has set the bar really high for acceptability. It's going to be exciting to experience.