As we build larger and more complex projects, it would be useful to improve some of the UI features/ functionality in TM. See attached for a few suggestions which are by no means fully thought through, but would be useful to gauge other users opinions.
See attached mock-up. I know we should submit ideas to the Roadmap but a limitation to this route is that not everyone gets to see the ideas until they are published.
great suggestions. one minor comment from me - it is quite annoying that folders auto expand when you place something in them. it could be nice to have a switch to control the default of this behaviour
Yes - that auto expand default behavior is annoying.
Another gripe is copying an object while no longer in its original container will place it in the current active container.
For example - a tree in a container called TREES will be copied into whatever is the current container, rather than its nominated original TREES container.
Totally agree we should be able to lock the folder in order to keep in place the models we have, is annoying when you re import a model and this pops out of the folder to the bottom of the list.
It's almost become critical to lock containers. It's too easy to delete a parent container without realizing important geometry is deeply embedded within it. This is something I've just done but fortunately was able to retrieve using Merge with an earlier version of the file.
Something else that would be really useful is some kind of color coding of containers - something similar to Photoshop's Layers. It helps to quickly identify content without having to cognitively process a long list of text...
