In the grand scheme of things, my complaint is minor - but it's been driving me crazy ever since I started using ORD & CONNECT products over V8i products. I'm a Microstation guy. I'm constantly using the middle mouse button / wheel for tentative snapping and the right mouse button for reset. Up until ORD, I rarely used the ESC button to reset or exit a command even though I was aware of the setting in Preferences. In ORD, when I'm quickly snapping, drawing, and laying out lines, I've found that the right mouse button works most of the time, but not all of the time to reset / exit a command. In these instances, the only way to finish a "Place Line" command (for example) is to hit the ESC key because the right mouse button does nothing. I've found myself having to have a finger hovering over the ESC key more often, like an AutoDesk user. If I have to quantify it, I'd say that the right mouse button only works 75% of the time to reset / exit a command - however, I'm unable to replicate it on demand.
And while I'm on this topic of minor ORD mouse-related annoyances, does anybody else have an issue with all of the views opening at once because you supposedly clicked "too fast" on one of the 1-8 view buttons?
I have also been irritated by the increased number of commands that require an ESC rather than a simple reset. One of the reasons I like MicroStation over other products is the ability to perform almost any task with nothing more than the mouse. Fortunately, picking the Selection tool accomplishes the same thing and I've made sure that there are multiple ways to invoke it: it's on most ribbons, it's on the context-sensitive menu (right-hold) and I make sure it's on my quick access toolbar. It's also possible to program one of the other mouse buttons as an ESC key-press.
Good thinking about programming one of my mouse's extra buttons to act as an ESC-key press! I'll give that a try. Still unfortunate.
I agree on the importance of including the Selection Tool almost everywhere. I always have it on the Quick Access Toolbar at the top.
1st question: Does a right click and hold always bring up a right click menu? I've added a Reset command to our GUI DGNLIB in our workspace, so no matter where you are, you can get to a reset if a quick right click does not seem to work. I also added a Pan View for us old-timers who prefer a middle button Tentative Snap and find the two button chord a little to convoluted approach. If you mis-click, and get a data point or a reset instead of the desired chord, you usually have to start over whatever you were doing when you tried to Pan.
2nd question: Yes, I have seen the view control dialog box stick on occasion. There is a MVBA and a GUI DGNLIB delivered with the product that also add to the right click and hold menu that open ORD specific view and even prompt to select and identify the necessary elements required to define profile or cross section views. Eliminates the need to use the view control toggles.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Chuck - I only recently learned about the right-click-and-hold menu and the fact that it's customizable via DGNLIBs. I love your additions of "Reset" and "Pan View" and will try to add the same. The next time that I experience the right-mouse-button-has-no-effect problem, I'll check whether the right-click-and-hold brings up the menu.
The view commands in the right-click-and-hold menu obviously do much more than simply open/close a view - which could be annoying, but I'll give them a try for a while in lieu of the 1-8 view toggles and see which I prefer.
Thanks!