joshhuggins wrote:I just realized that the knockout toggle seems to be global. While we are thinking our office will probably want it to always be on for text and dimensions, we will probably want it to be off 95% of the time for creating entities like circles, curves, polylines, slabs etc. Looking at the list of knockout supported entities in the Whats New File, would it be possible to break it up into three groups for the remembered status of knockouts? One for the text & dimensions menus (arrows?), one for curves entities, and one for Polygons & Slabs (& other 3D shapes once/if they are supported)?
The above wish becomes even more useful when you realize that you have shortcuts and quick keys that jump you right into entity creation commands like 3pt arcs and keep trying to create a arc and it keeps disappearing because the global knockout toggle is on when last used for text Couldn't I modify my shortcuts to turn knockouts off? Sure and I am for now, but feel they should still be separate toggles for groups of like entities as listed above. Not having to worry about toggling a setting that doesn't relate well between different types of entities seems logical to my wittle brain regardless of if your accessing via shortcuts or via the menus directly. If someone else has a different ideas about it would love to hear them. This is a great new feature and needs good discussion to build it up!
This is becoming quite an annoyance for our workers work flow. We have knockouts turned on for all of our text and dimensions now as an office standard cuz their Horecka kwel
, so when users jump directly into a curve command like 3pt arc they have to back out to the main curve menu, click knockouts, turn off knockouts, go back 2 menus to the main curve menu, back into the curve command and create their curves. Then remember to reload the text styles to toggle the knockouts back on before the create text or dimensions again. That doesn't include the time lost if they try to create curves, text or dimensions with the incorrect settings first and the undo to remove the entity with the incorrect setting or the property dialog box edit to toggle the knockout setting to correct setting for the entity type. Just wanted to bump this so it can hopefully be addressed in the future. I am going to go thru our toolbar and add in some buttons to help but for most users who are not upto doing this, this should really be addressed as knockouts are too helpful to not give them a little love when time permits. Thanks for the ears & have a great gobble gobble day!