Assigning toolbar shortcuts and buttons in Manufacture workspace

[daxliniere]

Hi Thomas,
A friend put me onto your plugin and it's a great idea. Thank you for this.
I ran into a couple issues that I wanted to ask you about.

1. I couldn't find a way to add toolbar buttons to functions on anything except the Design workspace, and then only on into the ANYSHORTCUT panel of the Utilities tab. Have I missed something?

2. Is there a way to run the Post Process action without having to first select one? Of course this assumes that all programs would be posted since none are selected.

3. I would like to add a button to my Design workspace toolbar that takes me straight to Manufacture. Likewise, I'd like to add a button to Manufacture toolbar to go to Design.

Thank you in advance,
Dax.

[daxliniere]

Hey @thomasa88, any news on this, please? 😊

[thomasa88]

Hi Dax!

Sorry for the late reply. Your message has been sitting marked in my inbox for .. quite some while.

1. This is indeed how AnyShortcut works. The idea is to just list the commands temporarily so that the user can assign a shortcut key.
2. I am not used to the manufacturing workspace, but I assume this command wants an input and the command does not prompt for the input when executed this way. AnyShortcut is very simple, as it just finds any command that the user uses, without understanding what they do or how they work. So the answer is no, at least for AnyShortcut.
3. This looks to be possible to do with an add-in, but likely not with AnyShortcut's features.

Soo, all your questions basically got a "no". However! I have had an idea for some time (I think my notes are from the start of this year) to make a better and more intuitive shortcut add-in. It should definitely be able to solve 1 and 3. Depending on what functionality Fusion exposes, also 2 might be possible.

I think I should be able to start on it late December or in January. Do you use Windows or Mac btw?

[daxliniere]

Hey Thomas :)
No worries at all. I found that there is an undocumented way to switch workspaces (CTRL+[/]) and was able to write an AutoHotKey script to achieve single-key switching between workspaces. It's not fool-proof, as it relies upon being in the Design workspace the first time the script is run, but, with that small caveat, it does work.

I'm on Windows, BTW. Curious to hear what you have planned!

All the best,
Dax.

[thomasa88]

Hi @daxliniere ,

My new add-ins are now in beta: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/new-add-ins-for-windows-toolbar-amp-shortcuts-editor-and-extra/m-p/12229008
Note: They are not free.

Extra Shortcuts has buttons for switching to different workspaces and with Toolbar & Shortcuts Editor it should be possible to put buttons in the Manufacture workspace (I usually assign Ctrl+Shift+M to open the config window), although I have not played around with the Manufacture workspace that much.

I was hoping to be able to announce that I have addressed point 2 in your list, but I am actually to unused to the Manufacture workspace to figure out what you're doing and how I can reproduce it.

Finally, some users have been plagued with shortcuts being lost with AnyShortcut. I have not seen that problem myself yet, so I have not been able to pin that down yet.