Tim Berners-Lee
It can be easy to lose the browser in Autodesk Inventor sometimes. Just click the "X", and poof! It's gone!
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| One click is all it takes |
All it take is one missed pick of the mouse, and Inventor looks like the picture below.
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| Inventor without its browser. It's not fun! |
Now that Inventor is broken. How is it fixed? That part is easy.
The first step is to go to Inventor's View Tab and locate the User Interface icon.
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| The User Interface icon. The ticket to a solution |
Click on the User Interface icon, and a fly-out appears. One of the options will be, Browser. This is the one we're after!
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| Find that Browser check box |
Check that option, and the browser is back! That's all there is to it!
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| Check the Browser checkbox, and celebrate |
So that how the browser can be brought back in a matter of seconds.
P.S. Looking back at the options on the User Interface icon, other options can be turned on or off from this same screen.
These include the:
- Viewcube
- Navigation Bar
- Browser
- Status Bar
- Document Tabs
- Marking Menus
- iLogic Browser
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| Several items can be controlled here |
These can be used to customize how Inventor looks and feels, and can tailor it to a given users preference.
It also makes for great April Fools jokes to users who don't know the trick of turning it back on....
Not that I'm encouraging that....
*** Update 13-November-2018 ***
It seems that somewhere along the line that somewhere in the newer releases of Inventor, the "Browser Bar" option has been replaced by "Model". I'm not sure exactly when this happened, I'm currently using Inventor 2015 at work, and I haven't gone looking at the newer versions lately.
But if you don't see the "Browser Bar" option, look for the "Model" check box. That should do it!
If only it were that easy. Browser is not one of the options on that tab in my inventor 18.
ReplyDeleteLook at the option for "Model". That should do the same thing. It changed somewhere along the line.
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