What happened to free form number entry of nearest points and max distance in the Find Nearest tool?
Is there a new way to enter your own number without using a preset that I'm just missing?
You aren’t missing something - a few of us noticed this unfortunate change with 2023.2 :(
@alexnajm that's utterly absurd. Thanks for the info. I made my own version to subvert their changes.
Hey @patrick_mcauliffe,
You can still do this in 2023.2, although it's less visible.
If you turn on display XML in your user settings:
Then you can edit the xml of the Find Nearest tool. You can write whatever number you want in the MaxDistanceValue=
This will then be reflected in the normal tool properties:
Hope that helps,
Ollie
Other threads where this became prevalent:
Cool workaround @OllieClarke - hoping they'll fix it though in a patch or for 24.1!
Thanks @OllieClarke. Yeah, editing the XML is an obvious solution. But it adds too many steps at scale. That's sorta the point of having these tools built out in a quick and easy to use fashion - to avoid extra steps, like coding something manually.
Thanks @alexnajm. It appears that I either don't know how to use the search function anymore or they made similar improvements in the way that functions too.
Funny @patrick_mcauliffe! Just wanted to show you are definitely not alone in this annoyance.
I appreciate it. Gave me something to go upvote.
@patrick_mcauliffe oh for sure, I absolutely agree. Was sharing the workaround if others needed it for one off pieces for now though