Usability enhancements before feature enhancements
The usabilty of Alibre in some dialogs is ugly uncomfortable, i.e. context menue or equation editor.
a.) equation editor
- a double click into a line should open the editor to alter a value of the parameter
- a change of the parameter's name should automatically alter all the references of this parameter- after changing a parameters value, the focus should be on the OK-Button in order to close the dialog with another <Return>
b.) context menue
the Hotkeys in the context-menue should be made unique, until now (V11.2) they are not.
look at http://www.alibre.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8886&p=50154#p50154
Josef
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4 comments
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bergske
commented
On opening the Note dialog, the font selection button has the focus. The focus should be on the textbox. So one can start typing right after opening the dialog.
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EK
commented
Accessibility to existing sketch constraints needs to be improved, ie. a list of constraints for a selected line or point. Current method of using icons rather clumsy.
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david
commented
I agree with the concept. We used to use Bobcad and they constantly rolled out new features that sort of worked or worked occasionally, or were a real pain to use properly. A much better approach would have been to do fewer things but do them really well. A major usability problem I have noticed is too many clicks required. For example, when I click save I have to click save again to confirm I want to save all the parts with relationships. Well, what else am I going to do? Just save the file again already.
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Scott Wertel commented
I really want to vote for this one, but it needs to be more specific. The equation editor is a good one, and well defined.
