Keyboard Shortcuts/Macros

[fmr110]

Hey all,

I have most my of my 3D modeling experience in SolidWorks, but recently had to pick up I-deas.

Is there a way to create keyboard shortcuts for various commands? Ex. Ctrl+7 = Isometric view?

Thanks

 

[SDETERS]

YEs there is

Find the file on your C: drive called Ideas.ini

In I-Deas in the screen menus. HIt CTRl-m to bring this menu up. In front of all of these commands are two letters assigned to these commands. So you have to put in the exact way of getting to the command you want.

In the following INI file I have for example ALT-z setup to bring up my part history. Or alt-t as putting a tangent constraint on some curves. Or alt-x as modify. The mods I have added is at the end of the INI file.

I hope this helps

Here is a copy of my INI file.



[WGUI_ACCELERATORS]
Accel0=CONTROL-A;icon;GUI_AUTOSCALE
Accel1=CONTROL-E;icon;GUI_QUIT
Accel2=CONTROL-O;icon;GUI_OPEN
Accel3=ALT-P;icon;GUI_PREF
Accel4=CONTROL-M;icon;GUI_NOFULL_MENUS
Accel5=CONTROL-L;icon;GUI_LINE
Accel6=CONTROL-S;icon;GUI_SAVE
Accel7=CONTROL-R;icon;GUI_REDI
Accel8=ALT-R;icon;GUI_REFR
Accel9=CONTROL-W;icon;GUI_SELECT_VP
Accel10=CONTROL-Z;command;/f o n o
Accel11=NULL-F7;icon;GUI_AUTOSCALE
Accel12=NULL-F8;command;REC
Accel13=NULL-F9;command;DES
Accel14=NULL-F10;icon;GUI_V_RESET
Accel15=NULL-F11;command;FIL
Accel16=NULL-F12;icon;GUI_REDI
Accel17=NULL-PRINTSCR;command;hc
Accel18=CONTROL-N;icon;GUI_NEW
Accel19=CONTROL-D;command;$ / cn qm
Accel20=ALT-c;command;/cn cp
Accel23=ALT-K;command;/cn lk
Accel24=ALT-T;command;/cn T
Accel25=ALT-R;command;/cn R
Accel26=ALT-A;command;/cn A
Accel27=ALT-D;command;/cn D
Accel28=ALT-x;command;/MO E
Accel29=ALT-S;command;/CN PA
Accel30=ALT-q;command;/cn pe
Accel31=ALT-z;command;/cr spe ht
Accel32=ALT-u;command;/v ma

 

[SDETERS]

One more thing. Make sure your mnemonics display is turned on. This makes sure you see the mnemonics in the screen menu. Go to Options Preferences then menus. There is a check box to turn this on. Then you see the letter it takes to excute commands.

 

[fmr110]

Hey,

Thanks for the great responses. One important thing

1) If you type an invalid accelerator, or something that I-Deas does't like into ideas.ini the program will not load. Remove what you wrote and try something else.

Any idea of where I can find a list of valid key-combinations? I would like to add the END key as my isometric view (to be consistant with unigraphics.) Don't think I-deas likes it though

 

[SDETERS]

To get a isometric view hit F4 I do not think you can assign certain keys like end to do a command in I-Deas.