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Hotkey for current tool reset
3dcad
Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
The idea is to have a hotkey to de-select current tool and then select it again - I would call it tool Reset.
For example line tool in sketch, this hotkey would do the same as currently hitting L twice (or Esc + L) ie. stop current line but keep tool active and ready for next one.
When doing ordinate dimension in drawings, this same key would end current group but keep tool selected for immediate start of new group (same as clicking the icon twice).
So it would be the same one key all over Onshape always affecting on currently selected tool.
This would make the need for having (to remember) separate key for each feature less important as you only need to select tool once and then hit this key to end & begin new.
I'm too lazy to memorize all minor feature hotkeys, but I feel this would be the one I would put a sticker into keyboard to save mouse mileage.
What do you guys&gals think?
ps. In sketch double LMB click does this with line tool but very often I find myself trimming that little extra piece because moved mouse a bit while trying to dblclick on some exact position. And this hotkey should also rescue you when creating a rectangle and notice that you selected wrong start point etc.
For example line tool in sketch, this hotkey would do the same as currently hitting L twice (or Esc + L) ie. stop current line but keep tool active and ready for next one.
When doing ordinate dimension in drawings, this same key would end current group but keep tool selected for immediate start of new group (same as clicking the icon twice).
So it would be the same one key all over Onshape always affecting on currently selected tool.
This would make the need for having (to remember) separate key for each feature less important as you only need to select tool once and then hit this key to end & begin new.
I'm too lazy to memorize all minor feature hotkeys, but I feel this would be the one I would put a sticker into keyboard to save mouse mileage.
What do you guys&gals think?
ps. In sketch double LMB click does this with line tool but very often I find myself trimming that little extra piece because moved mouse a bit while trying to dblclick on some exact position. And this hotkey should also rescue you when creating a rectangle and notice that you selected wrong start point etc.
//rami
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What about an improvement to shift+enter
IR for AS/NZS 1100
I would not expect shift+enter to reset say dimension tool or line tool. It is good as it's now since you're already prepared to hit enter and you only need to add shift.
Then I'll just accept double Esc, can you code it in by the weekend?
Typically enter key restarts last command (autocad, solidworks, draftsight for example)
HWM-Water Ltd
What might actually work is double esc set up differently: the first esc would cancel the current line but keep the line tool active, while the second esc would cancel the line tool, bringing you back to the top level. This allows you to cancel a tool in progress and try again, while keeping the "flail on esc" behavior as expected. It does add an extra keypress to quit most tools though, but I have a feeling many of us hit double-esc reflexively anyway.
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University