CC - Linear Arrays confused by clicking in design area

Software Carbide Create
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  1. create a simple object, hit Linear Array button.
  2. Make changes until happy
  3. Click in Design area (where the drawing occurs). The array disappears, but the Linear Array interface remains. Changes at this point are ignored.
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If you click on the key object again, the array will reappear with all of your changes. I’m not sure why this is built this way, but I believe it’s so you can temporarily hide the array for visibility? I really don’t know, but it’s behaving as the developers expected it to. The Circular array works the same way.

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You have disabled the Linear Array by deselecting the object which was used for the Linear Array.

This might be a useful feature if for example, one initially sets up a Linear Array w/ an object used to check size/placement, then one deselects it and chooses the actual object(s) to instantiate.

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I didn’t realize that if you clicked on a different object, the array then is created (with the current parameters) of that new object. Interesting. And…if you make a multiple selection, the array is of all of those objects. I’d have to see if I can use that…off the top of my head, I can’t imagine where, but it’s good to know.

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OK, so ‘Working as designed’, but oof, discoverability is low. It would never have occurred to me that the key object could be deselected once the Linear Array properties pane was open.

Perhaps if the key object is de-selected, a mesage in the Linear Array Pane appears saying basically ‘Please select your key/starting object(s)’. Shouldn’t be modal.

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A use for the multiple objects array would be a cribbage board, where you typically have 3 or 4 across, but every 5 along there’s a gap.

Make up a single ‘block’, then replicate it with the right spacing for your gap between blocks.

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