Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
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Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
After recently upgrading to the Freecad Version below, I find that double clicking a part in the combo view area no longer initiates the transform command but instead takes you to 'tasks'. I don't want it to do that. I want the old behaviour. I assume it's a preference setting but I'll be damned if I can find it.
OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.24789 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 31b0f25b6df1d1707fdf74135093831eec4f0281
Python version: 3.8.8
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.1
Locale: English/Australia (en_AU)
OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.24789 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 31b0f25b6df1d1707fdf74135093831eec4f0281
Python version: 3.8.8
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.1
Locale: English/Australia (en_AU)
Re: Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
'Part' as in Std_Part?
Re: Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
'Part' as in component of a model as listed in the model window...
Re: Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
Behavior depends on which kind of objects you're double clicking on. And it has been like that for a pretty long time.
Re: Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
openBrain, I can't move a cube... It's never been like that... well, I mean, I can but I have to right-click it and choose 'transform'.
Re: Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
I'm talking about all primitives and other objects that form the hierarchical treed structure of a model... You can no longer double click anything to get to 'transform'.
Re: Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
I miss the old feature too, but I have accepted that the new behaviour is much more consistent. This was changed for the Part primitives, and shows now what was missing before: Double opens a panel for the object specific parameters.
In the old days no editing dialog existed, and calling the transform tool was only a temprary solution.
You can, however, add the transform function to an icon in your own toolbar.
In the old days no editing dialog existed, and calling the transform tool was only a temprary solution.
You can, however, add the transform function to an icon in your own toolbar.
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Re: Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
OMG... you mean this is intentional and unchangeable? It might be more consistent but it's VERY inconvenient! Perhaps if this feature isn't coming back, a click of the third mouse wheel button or one of the more modern side mouse buttons could bring back the old behaviour on a new mouse button. It would be VERY easy to program that change. In the meantime, I will take your suggestion of creating a custom toolbar button because choosing it from the context menu just seems too cumbersome for something that is in CONSTANT use.
Re: Double clicking a part behaviour has changed...
Actually it has some logics as FC is a parametric CAD software. Part positioning (assembly) should be done by constraining or using expressions in placement, theoretically not 'by rough hand'.
I eventually will look at the code later to see if some switch is available to change that. But I don't think.
Should be optional though. Let's see what part of the community is missing this.
Perhaps if this feature isn't coming back, a click of the third mouse wheel button or one of the more modern side mouse buttons could bring back the old behaviour on a new mouse button.
It would be VERY easy to program that change.
So please do. The code is on Github.
More efficient, you can just assign a keyboard shortcut to the function.
In the meantime, I will take your suggestion of creating a custom toolbar button because choosing it from the context menu just seems too cumbersome for something that is in CONSTANT use.