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For many 3D users of AutoCAD, the ViewCube is likely to be the most useful new thing in AutoCAD 2009. There are a couple of problems with it, at least in the Release Candidate: It does not work in 2D wireframe mode (which is, paradoxically, where 90% of my 3D work is done). You [...]  10 March 2008, 9:53 pm |  One comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance, User Interface, ViewCube | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance As a “grammar Nazi”, I must say I “love” this “blog”. http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/ 10 March 2008, 12:39 pm |  2 comments | Tags: Fun, Grammar, Other Blogs | Category: Fun, Grammar, Other Blogs For this review of my third favourite debut album of all time, I dusted off the trusty old turntable so I could hear it as it was originally heard. It seems that certain stock phrases must be included in all Led Zeppelin reviews. So before we go any further, here they are: primal [...] 9 March 2008, 9:58 am | Leave a comment | Tags: Blues Rock, Classic Rock, Debut Albums, Hard Rock, Led Zeppelin, Metal, Music, Top Three | Category: Album Review, Music, Navel Gazing How do you turn the new screen elements on and off using the keyboard? How about the not-so-new ones? See this table: Element On Off Toggle Advanced Render Settings RPPREF RPPREFCLOSE Clean Screen CLEANSCREENON CLEANSCREENOFF Ctrl+0 Command line COMMANDLINE COMMANDLINEHIDE Ctrl+9 dbConnect DBCONNECT DBCCLOSE Ctrl+6 DesignCenter ADCENTER ADCCLOSE Ctrl+2 Layer palette LAYER LAYERCLOSE [...] 7 March 2008, 8:53 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Tip, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Tip With all this AutoCAD 2009 stuff, I haven’t given much attention to some of the other things this blog is supposed to be about, such as music. I will rectify that soon with posts about my three favourite debut albums of all time. In the meantime, have a think about this: if you could [...] This video shows how the AutoCAD 2009 vertical Ribbon behaves when it is docked on one side. The labels explain what is going on. The main thing that used to drive me batty with the Dashboard was the way in which expanding one panel would contract another. The vertical Ribbon doesn’t do that, [...] 6 March 2008, 8:57 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009 More simple AutoCAD tips, as promised: If you erase some objects, draw a few things and then want your erased objects back without losing the things you drew in the meantime, enter OOPS rather than undoing the commands. At any Select objects: prompt, you can select using a triangle, non-orthogonal rectangle or other odd [...] Dude, Dashboard’s dead. Defunct. Done. AutoCAD 2009 replaced the Dashboard with the Ribbon. If you type in the DASHBOARD or DASHBOARDCLOSE commands, they are just converted to the RIBBON and RIBBONCLOSE commands, which turn the Ribbon on and off. If you’re a fan of the Dashboard (and I never was), there is good and [...] 6 March 2008, 1:42 pm | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, CUI, Performance, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009 I’m gradually getting the hang of this blog maintenance business. The Polls Archive page, which was broken with a 404 error, is now fixed. If you run across any other problems on this site, please let me know. I’ve added a new poll: have fun! As my forced change to a different blog theme (thanks IE7) has meant the demise of my random AutoCAD tip feature, you may as well have the tips in a blog post instead. Here are the first five. These are fairly simple tips that apply to all recent releases. You probably know most of [...] 6 March 2008, 9:22 am | Leave a comment | Tags: Announcement, AutoCAD, Tip | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, Tip If AutoCAD 2009′s floating toolbars are the best ever, what about when they’re docked? As a starting point, here is AutoCAD 2008 with the Express Tools toolbars docked. Here is the same thing in AutoCAD 2009. So a few pixels have been shaved off in one direction and added in another. The [...] 5 March 2008, 9:32 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009 I’ve now tested startup times of various AutoCAD releases under Vista. Here are the results, alongside the XP results for ease of comparison: Release First Startup Subsequent Startup XP Vista XP Vista 12 8.6 – 8.2 – 13 2.6 1.8 1.3 0.8 14 2.1 – 0.5 – 2002 3.2 2.1 0.6 1.1 2004 [...] 4 March 2008, 9:27 pm | 9 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance, Vista | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance This table shows both the initial and subsequent startup times for various releases. Most of the qualifications and caveats from my AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 6 – Initial Startup Time post still apply here. Release First Startup Subsequent Startup 12 8.6 8.2 13 2.6 1.3 14 2.1 0.5 2002 3.2 0.6 [...] 4 March 2008, 11:05 am | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance One thing you’ll notice (and dislike) right away with AutoCAD 2009 is that it takes a lot longer to get started. How much longer? About twice as long as recent releases, or about ten times longer than ancient speed demon Release 13. (I bet a 1994 AutoCAD user transported forward in time would be [...] 3 March 2008, 10:25 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Performance | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance I just spotted this image flash up on a banner advertisement on a CAD-related site. At first glance, I thought it was a nasty Autodesk ad promoting Revit (it’s on top, after all) and unkindly suggesting that Bentley software is only fit for disposal. Then I spotted Bentley logos elsewhere on the ad [...] 2 March 2008, 9:49 pm | 2 comments | Tags: Advertising, Bentley, Oops | Category: Advertising, Bentley, Fun, Pictures What’s the longest you’ve waited on hold? I broke my own personal best last week when I rang my bank. I phoned up, went through the menu system, typed in my account number and was advised that there could be “some delays” due to “technical difficulties”. I left the phone on speaker and went [...] 2 March 2008, 4:23 pm | One comment | Tags: Bank, Customer Service, On Hold, Rant | Category: Customer Service, Rant There are many areas of AutoCAD 2009′s new user interface that pointlessly waste your screen space. Floating toolbars do not. You have probably already noticed that AutoCAD 2009 concentrates on the Ribbon as its primary screen-based user interface, with the default state lacking any toolbars at all. So it’s somewhat ironic that AutoCAD 2009 [...] 2 March 2008, 11:28 am | 4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009 A belated thank you to Kiwi Robin Capper for his welcome to the CAD blog world. Here’s a snap I took of Robin at Autodesk University 2006: Similarly, thanks to Lynn Allen for linking to my post about her famous Cell Phone Story. Here she is, also at AU 2006, presenting me with [...] 1 March 2008, 8:51 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Lynn Allen, Pictures, Robin Capper, Shaan Hurley | Category: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Fun, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Pictures |
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