A few small features for convenience

Feature Requests
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If you don’t mind, in this topic I’d like to make a few requests for rather small features that could be added in the future for convenience (I don’t want to create a separate topic for each idea to avoid unnecessary mess):

  1. Shortcuts (buttons) for these existing options available from the Tools menu:
    a) Probe values (Tools → Query → Point/Node)
    b) Undeformed with color contours (currently, there is only Deformed with color contours and Undeformed/Deformed without contours)

  2. Access to Tools → Settings menu before a new model is created (sometimes you just want to configure something and leave PrePoMax)

  3. Possibility to close the Model Properties window without creating a new model (so you would go back to the state right after opening PrePoMax) - currently, the Close button has no effect and it’s necessary to click OK so that a new model is created

  4. Query → Distance tool taking into account reference points

  5. Perspective view on/off

  6. Possibility to configure buttons used for navigation in 3D space (maybe in form of a few presets) - for example, laptop users could benefit from some shortcuts like Alt+Touchpad to Rotate

  7. Possibility to change the size of text and icons (they can be too small with some screen resolutions)

  8. Option to save screenshots containing just the viewport (like File → Print in Abaqus), possibly with configurable size in pixels

  9. Maybe optional display of symmetry axis for axisymmetric models

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Feature Request list
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Possibility to query a node or element by using ID?

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About point 8:
it would be handy to save the viewport image at Ctrl-C when the mouse is over the viewport.

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  1. Option to save screenshots containing just the viewport (like File → Print in Abaqus)

Hello FEAnalyst, could you add to this also something like width (in px) x height (in px). (as in abaqus) When accidently moving the window size of the model window, the future screenshots / hard copys might have different size. An alternative would be to have the ability besides “User Views” to somehow lock the size of the model window with width x height values (or in the preferences?).

Thanks.
Best,
Stoli

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Yeah, the approach used in Abaqus definitely makes sense. Here’s what it looks like for reference:

abaqus screenshots
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