What did you think of SWx Undo/Redo? LOL

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What is up with that? I just finished the SWX 2010 Essentials course and couldn't figure out why there were so many gaps in its ability to Redo. In fact, and this should have tipped me off, the Redo button is no longer on the toolbar by default in SWX 2010 (it was in 2009). You have to add it yourself, which I did, but I probably didn't need to because it was so rarely clickable. Was it something I was doing wrong?

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Oops, I take some of that back. I just installed SWX 2010 on my computer and the Redo button is on the toolbar. Someone must have removed it from the training computers I was using.

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That actually makes sense, if it gets the students to edit and make changes, and not just reach for undo all the time.

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Redo only works in sketches. Undo sometimes clears the list after certain operations (Inserting a library feature) so its limited as well.

Some commands like Freeform and Boundary have their own undo/redo that must be used.

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The challenge for any software on both redo and undo, is how the collections are made by the software. Take NX for example, if you undo across a sketch, you loose the entire sketch because the undo transaction sees the sketch as a single transaction and undoes it. Inventor treats the sub commands within the sketch and entering the sketch as separate transactions, hence undo from outside will return you to the sketch and step through each of the transactions (commands) within the sketch. I am not sure how SW treats it, I expect it is similar to Inventor. NX doesn't have a redo, at least not through the versions I used.

It's like IV....undo re-enters you back into the sketch....and back out if you continue. It's biggest problem is certain things clear the list so you can't undo. Frustrates the ex-Acad users as they are used to being able to undo everything.

SolidWorks users don't make mistakes so who needs undo right?

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"Chuck Norris can speak braille."

One of these days I ought to get a demo and "see what they've done with the place." I haven't seen IV since 2005. Did configurations mature?

2005? Wow. Yeah, a little has changed, but then you would expect to see something from several hundred million in R&D. Back then, it was a stretch to open a 22K part assembly. I did over a million in 2009.

Thanks for the suggestion Donovan, I've never been much of a RMB user, so i'll try that out see if it works. Otherwise I'll look fwd to when we can upgrade to 2011.

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