SW2004 hotkeys

I just figured out why my "c" hotkey for circle didn't work any more.
SW2004 now has it assigned to Expand/Collapse Tree, which, obviously I knew,
because I added it to the list. Duhh. However, in the list I said I
couldn't get it to do anything, so I unassigned my circle "c" and theirs
still didn't do anything. Hmm. I guess I prefer my "c" that I use all the
time to theirs that doesn't do anything - not too hard to make that choice.

WT

 

SW2004 assigned ctrl+m to Mate Diagnostics, which would only apply in an
assy.

WT

 

Can you assign any hotkey to the "Expand/Collapse Tree"?

I can hot get that one to work with any hotkey sequence...

 

I can assign one to it, but it doesn't appear to do anything. I guess I'm
expecting to see it collapse all the features, or just the selected branch
in the tree, depending on what you have highlighted at the time of the
sequence.

WT

 

I have also noticed that if you try to type any of the hot keys when
trying to type a search into SW help the key stroke gets ignored in
help and performs the assigned function in SW.

Does anyone know if this has been fixed in SP1? I haven't had time to
download and install yet.

Regards

Mark Downey

 

I just tried it and couldn't find a problem. I tried m, d, w, etc. and they
all went in just fine. I do remember something about SW Explorer & certain
keystrokes, though.

WT

 

I assigned a different hotkey (alt-t) to "Expand/Collapse Tree", but it
appears the only time it works is when the Property Manager has taken
over the Feature Tree area and the Feature Tree is moved to the graphics
area.

 

BINGO - you win the prize! Makes sense when you finally know what it's
supposed to do. The new feature of the superimposed FM tree in the graphics
area is what stretches open or collapses when you hit the hotkey. Hmmm,
wonder if that's documented anywhere? Look at "FeatureManager design tree,
flyout" in the Help - this is where I would put it.

WT

 

I wish SWX would leave the friggin hotkeys to us!

 

Can anyone say PGN file!!! Way back when in my AutoBAD daze I would carry
that little gem on a floppy to what ever machine I had to work on. For you
non-AutoCAD people it was a text file that held all your keyboard short cut
keys.
I wonder if someone could write a piece of code that would change those
settings. Something that would capture what is on someone's machine & save
it to a text file or something. As I do a lot hand on training here at work
I would actually pay for that one. Not to mention every time you upgrade or
have to reinstall for one reason or another.

Matt B.

 

Your shortcut key information is contained in the 'user_name.cus' file in
the user sub-directory of SW. You can copy your .cus file, drop it on
another computer and just change the name to the name of the person you are
logged on as (i.e. on your computer it may be Bill.cus and to use it on
Fred's computer re-name Fred's Fred.cus to something else [so you can
reinstate it] and then copy yours across and re-name it to Fred.cus -
voila - you are now blessed with your own shortcut keys.

Merry

 

U da MAN!!!!

Many thanks Merry, If you are going to SWW I shall buy you a drink!!

Matt B.