This is very much a quality of life request. Would it be reasonable to request arrows in Engrave mode to flip thru parts while editing them? Since so much of the fine tuning is done with mouse, a quick button to flip thru the parts would actually seem useful (sounds ridiculous to request when we have a good keyboard shortcut, but seems that it requires to remove both hands to get to the keyboard, when something like an arrow would be an easy flip to the next part). Thanks in advance!
Alternatively I could probably just assign brackets without modifier keys as the shortcuts to do that with only one hand. Seem silly to request buttons with a program that’s already streamlined shortcuts!
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Would creating multiple tabs help you?
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Yes and if you have the Tabs open you can move with CtrlTab thru the tabs.
CtrlShiftTab For backwards.
I find that easier because I can do it with one left hand.
I appreciate the responses. I’m aware of the keyboard shortcuts and of the tab menus. I did not know about keyboard shortcuts for the tabs themselves. My thinking is for the default keyboard shortcut, when I’m doing 90% of edits in Engrave mode with the mouse it would be easier to just bounce to the top and click a button (I’m finding myself doing this after having to manually adjust clearance issues with 1st endings and chords or text, for example, so a lot of times I’m thumbing thru everything quickly just checking on one particular location). The default shortcut requires moving over to the keyboard. Really not a huge deal, just seemed like a nice spot of there for the buttons! I like the tabs idea, maybe we could request to add multiple tabs at once? Otherwise for large scores it actually becomes more tedious to set up.
I appreciate the responses, it’s not a big deal but thought I’d share a thought on streamlining even further!
Thanks guys
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But you can alter the shortcut in preferences keycommands window next layout. Or do I miss something? You prefer buttons, Ok. Maybe one day 
Do you know also the short cut counterpart layout W
To me it would be logic to have Ctrl T and then the possiblity to open more tabs in one time.
You are right.
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I actually use my mouse for this. When I know I’m going to be doing part layout I just switch to a mouse profile that has the two buttons on the left side programmed to switch layouts.
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OMG, the picture makes it look like some sort of transformer superhero.
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I actually prefer the key commands! This is one of those rare cases where I thought a button could be useful. But really no big deal either way.
This is a great idea! I use the MX mouse so I’ll definitely do that.
To add a little context, I do a lot of steel detail work, and the software I use has a pretty cool feature in the “drawings” mode where you indeed flip thru after doing your fine tuning (talking about going thru easily at least 20 assembly drawings, multiple parts drawings, etc) so it definitely helps the workflow. (There’s also a powerful revision tracking and way of keeping track of where each phase is… in progress, ready to submit, for approval, etc. Not sure if modified versions of parts/score tracking would be useful, and would certainly be a much larger undertaking for the team, but nonetheless there are interesting things there!)
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