Comments on: AutoCAD 2009 - Tooltips are bad for my sanity http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/04/16/autocad-2009-tooltips-are-bad-for-my-sanity/ A strange mix of AutoCAD, music, image manipulation and video Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:24:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: PJ Lightning http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/04/16/autocad-2009-tooltips-are-bad-for-my-sanity/#comment-268 PJ Lightning Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:01:07 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=82#comment-268 I totally agree. What is the point of a huge box that obscures everything. OK It's useful to have something that gives a hint about the button, while you are learning. But eventually you KNOW what the bloody buttons sre and just need a small reminder for the ones you don't use so often. I put a post in the C3d wish list for them to make tooltips a right click function. Then the info is there when you want it but not when you don't I totally agree. What is the point of a huge box that obscures everything. OK It’s useful to have something that gives a hint about the button, while you are learning. But eventually you KNOW what the bloody buttons sre and just need a small reminder for the ones you don’t use so often. I put a post in the C3d wish list for them to make tooltips a right click function. Then the info is there when you want it but not when you don’t

]]> By: trebormoslrac http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/04/16/autocad-2009-tooltips-are-bad-for-my-sanity/#comment-259 trebormoslrac Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:33:07 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=82#comment-259 Short and sweet: Tooltips = real PITA Short and sweet: Tooltips = real PITA

]]> By: vmoreland http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/04/16/autocad-2009-tooltips-are-bad-for-my-sanity/#comment-254 vmoreland Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:19:57 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=82#comment-254 I ranted about this on Autocad discussion groups. I was assured there that Autodesk don't really give a rat's ass what old users think....and the speculation was that maybe Autodesk was doing this kind of stuff on purpose to drive people to using model based products. Well....I don't really believe it, but if it is true, I won't be driven to Inventor because if they will will "dis" old time Autocad users, they will most certainly do the same to Inventor users. Meanwhile....I am going to go back to 2008 since 2009 is driving me nuts. The hope is that a service pack comes out that adresses this problem as well as others....like...."find" which zooms to the target, and upon closing the dialog box, zooms back out so that you don't have any idea of where the "find" was within the drawing. I ranted about this on Autocad discussion groups. I was assured there that Autodesk don’t really give a rat’s ass what old users think….and the speculation was that maybe Autodesk was doing this kind of stuff on purpose to drive people to using model based products.

Well….I don’t really believe it, but if it is true, I won’t be driven to Inventor because if they will will “dis” old time Autocad users, they will most certainly do the same to Inventor users.

Meanwhile….I am going to go back to 2008 since 2009 is driving me nuts. The hope is that a service pack comes out that adresses this problem as well as others….like….”find” which zooms to the target, and upon closing the dialog box, zooms back out so that you don’t have any idea of where the “find” was within the drawing.

]]> By: ralphg http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/04/16/autocad-2009-tooltips-are-bad-for-my-sanity/#comment-234 ralphg Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:21:03 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=82#comment-234 Related to this is the removal of the Description field at the bottom of some palettes and dialog boxes. The area is still there, but blank -- making the dialog box larger than necessary. Related to this is the removal of the Description field at the bottom of some palettes and dialog boxes. The area is still there, but blank — making the dialog box larger than necessary.

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