LoveLearn
11-14-2007, 12:58 PM
One Visual Aid that's common to many software packages which I've not found in OneSpace Modeling Personal Edition is simple listings of Commands with brief descriptions.
I wrongly thought that copy and paste might work within Modeling to enable copying a gear, rotate 1/2 of one gear tooth increment degrees, then paste to generate a meshing gear rotated sufficiently to display meshing. When I clicked on paste I was surprised to see an image file displayed within OneSpace Modeling as fixed background. That unexpected result brought to mind a way to use this characteristic to good advantage. I'll explain and provide an example.
Attached to this note is an image file I named "OneSpace ShortCuts 1.jpg" It's good as an illustration, but should be improved and generated as a higher resolution image, probably as a GIF rather than JPG. I ran a simple screen capture on a CoCreate on-line support page. Then I moved some of its elements around to leave its center space blank. If you display this JPG file, then click "Copy," Windows operating system will capture that image into temporary memory space. Then, within OneSpace Modeling Personal Edition, click "Edit" near top left corner, then click "Paste" in the menu displayed under "Edit."
In a moment, you will see a useful list of shortcuts surrounding your current OneSpace Modeling Project. You will be able to continue modeling as before with this useful supplementary Visual Aid learning material TRULY integrated into your OneSpace as ONE-Window rather than as TWO Windows.
But how can you get it to disappear? I don't see an easy command for that. But you can "Copy" a white blank image, then simply repeat the "Paste" command again under "Edit" within OneSpace Modeling which will restore the white blank background.
Right now, if we click on "Help," we gain access to what I've read is over 2500 pages of help files. But they appear in a separate Window so we either must switch back and forth between our OneSpace Modeling PE Window and the Help file Window, or we can resize both of those Windows so they can simultaneously be seen. When people are learning complex new commands, they often need to swap back and forth between those displayed Windows repeatedly to track those instructions and get needed results. All that frustrating swapping should be unnecessary. If this system is tweaked just a little users can see and use both contents from the Modeling Window.
If we can copy individual OnceSpace Modeling "Help" pages into Windows short-term memory, then "Paste" them into OneSpace
Modeling as background material, we won't need to swap or resize Windows to simultaneously use both to their intended purposes.
Right now OneSpace Modeling "Help" files allow us to toggle between "Hide" and "Show" the indexing pages while the search content remains on screen. But it does NOT enable a "Copy" choice.
I urge creating a new top-of-screen "Help" file display choice which instantly copies user choice of either a blank screen or the currently-displayed help content page and then automatically paste it into OneSpace Modeling as the new current background.
I don't think this should be a huge programing project. But the resulting improved user experience will significantly improve self-learning and reduce need for external teaching aids. This would be a big step in the right direction to improve this program's Joy/Pain curve.
Also, I think at least a dozen blank center screen images covering most commonly-used Modeling commands should be generated so when users need help in knowing what command they should use next, they can quickly flip through those content-rich command-explanation screens while staying withing their Modeling Window rather than being forced to open "Help" and swap in those most-frequently viewed images.
The name OneSpace suggests better integration within Windows. The strategy I've just suggested significantly extends that OneSpace philosophy to Help file use.
Thanks for your consideration,
John
I wrongly thought that copy and paste might work within Modeling to enable copying a gear, rotate 1/2 of one gear tooth increment degrees, then paste to generate a meshing gear rotated sufficiently to display meshing. When I clicked on paste I was surprised to see an image file displayed within OneSpace Modeling as fixed background. That unexpected result brought to mind a way to use this characteristic to good advantage. I'll explain and provide an example.
Attached to this note is an image file I named "OneSpace ShortCuts 1.jpg" It's good as an illustration, but should be improved and generated as a higher resolution image, probably as a GIF rather than JPG. I ran a simple screen capture on a CoCreate on-line support page. Then I moved some of its elements around to leave its center space blank. If you display this JPG file, then click "Copy," Windows operating system will capture that image into temporary memory space. Then, within OneSpace Modeling Personal Edition, click "Edit" near top left corner, then click "Paste" in the menu displayed under "Edit."
In a moment, you will see a useful list of shortcuts surrounding your current OneSpace Modeling Project. You will be able to continue modeling as before with this useful supplementary Visual Aid learning material TRULY integrated into your OneSpace as ONE-Window rather than as TWO Windows.
But how can you get it to disappear? I don't see an easy command for that. But you can "Copy" a white blank image, then simply repeat the "Paste" command again under "Edit" within OneSpace Modeling which will restore the white blank background.
Right now, if we click on "Help," we gain access to what I've read is over 2500 pages of help files. But they appear in a separate Window so we either must switch back and forth between our OneSpace Modeling PE Window and the Help file Window, or we can resize both of those Windows so they can simultaneously be seen. When people are learning complex new commands, they often need to swap back and forth between those displayed Windows repeatedly to track those instructions and get needed results. All that frustrating swapping should be unnecessary. If this system is tweaked just a little users can see and use both contents from the Modeling Window.
If we can copy individual OnceSpace Modeling "Help" pages into Windows short-term memory, then "Paste" them into OneSpace
Modeling as background material, we won't need to swap or resize Windows to simultaneously use both to their intended purposes.
Right now OneSpace Modeling "Help" files allow us to toggle between "Hide" and "Show" the indexing pages while the search content remains on screen. But it does NOT enable a "Copy" choice.
I urge creating a new top-of-screen "Help" file display choice which instantly copies user choice of either a blank screen or the currently-displayed help content page and then automatically paste it into OneSpace Modeling as the new current background.
I don't think this should be a huge programing project. But the resulting improved user experience will significantly improve self-learning and reduce need for external teaching aids. This would be a big step in the right direction to improve this program's Joy/Pain curve.
Also, I think at least a dozen blank center screen images covering most commonly-used Modeling commands should be generated so when users need help in knowing what command they should use next, they can quickly flip through those content-rich command-explanation screens while staying withing their Modeling Window rather than being forced to open "Help" and swap in those most-frequently viewed images.
The name OneSpace suggests better integration within Windows. The strategy I've just suggested significantly extends that OneSpace philosophy to Help file use.
Thanks for your consideration,
John