topic Re: MacOS Context Menu in Modeling

MacOS Context Menu

Seiss Wagner — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:53:32 GMT

I am wondering, now that Graphisoft has made the context menu virtually useless, by embedding the most frequently used commands in sub-menus, doubling the number of moves required to access a command that use to be accessed in one click; how other users are coping with the issue - (should this really be one sentence?).

Specifically, I am referring to Drag, Rotate, Mirror, etc.; you know, the things you use about 25 times an hour.

What should I do, make a new menu, make a new tool bar, or just give up and wait for version 13, 14, or 15, by which time Graphisoft will realize they have made typical bureaucratic mistake?

Re: MacOS Context Menu

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:25:14 GMT

This isn't just Mac, it's Windows too. Annoyed me to start with, but I am starting to use more Shortcuts now than I used to. The one that gets me every time is Mirror (Ctrl-M), means two hands or contorting left hand from normal, relaxed position. Ctrl-D and Ctrl-E I can handle. Ctrl-D then Ctrl-Alt is almost bearable for multiple copy.

I'm not saying I agree with the change, just that I am learning to live with it (should I have to though, that's the question)

Re: MacOS Context Menu

__archiben — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:09:19 GMT

Seiss wrote:
What should I do...

learn the keyboard shortcuts. way quicker and more intuitive than a context menu . . . i think i only use the context menu these days for opening sect/elev/details/layouts and cancelling the marquee when i don't want to ESC to far . . .

and also . . . all of your drag, rotate, mirror, etc commands are on the pet palette as well, no?

~/archiben

Re: MacOS Context Menu

Stress Co_ — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:21:33 GMT

Ditto on key board short cuts. Also, I created one tool bar with my most commonly used commands.