Comments on: AutoCAD 2010 – Will you miss the Menu Browser? http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2009/02/20/autocad-2010-will-you-miss-the-menu-browser/ Mostly AutoCAD discussion, but also music, image manipulation and video Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy Gore http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2009/02/20/autocad-2010-will-you-miss-the-menu-browser/#comment-4676 Andy Gore Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:08:20 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=444#comment-4676 RibbonClose to close the ribbon. MENUBAR = 1 to show the Menu bar. Not sure that answers your question but thats the closest I know. RibbonClose to close the ribbon. MENUBAR = 1 to show the Menu bar.

Not sure that answers your question but thats the closest I know.

]]> By: Stephen Chapman http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2009/02/20/autocad-2010-will-you-miss-the-menu-browser/#comment-4675 Stephen Chapman Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:07:16 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=444#comment-4675 Strangley enough... I find myself missing the dropdown menu from 2009. I operate with the ribon turned off and use keyboard commands and the big red A dropdown. I actually came here looking for a way to enable it in 2010!! Strangley enough… I find myself missing the dropdown menu from 2009. I operate with the ribon turned off and use keyboard commands and the big red A dropdown. I actually came here looking for a way to enable it in 2010!!

]]> By: Ronald Cajelais http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2009/02/20/autocad-2010-will-you-miss-the-menu-browser/#comment-4096 Ronald Cajelais Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:48:40 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=444#comment-4096 @bring back 2007 God i miss r14... I'm right with you for the sh..y Ribbons: who needed that crap? I did turned them off and brang back the MENUBAR but still: it's a nightmare to customize any good old button. @bring back 2007

God i miss r14…

I’m right with you for the sh..y Ribbons: who needed that crap?
I did turned them off and brang back the MENUBAR but still: it’s a nightmare to customize any good old button.

]]> By: bring back 2007 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2009/02/20/autocad-2010-will-you-miss-the-menu-browser/#comment-3887 bring back 2007 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:05:04 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=444#comment-3887 I HATED 2008 and have an even greater hate for 2010. I wish there was a mod out there that would destroy the 2010 GUI completely and restore it to the sane 2007 layout. I want to slap the face of whatever marketing moron sold them on the rip off of M$ ribbon interface. "it'll look cool! It'll be more productive." Yea right, Mr. Snake Oil salesman, you've never touched autocad in your life and drew this junk up on a napkin. Now I'm forced to learn a new GUI that I hate on top of having to go through all the extra steps it forces me to take. What's next in 2012? 3D interface with googgles? I HATED 2008 and have an even greater hate for 2010. I wish there was a mod out there that would destroy the 2010 GUI completely and restore it to the sane 2007 layout. I want to slap the face of whatever marketing moron sold them on the rip off of M$ ribbon interface. “it’ll look cool! It’ll be more productive.” Yea right, Mr. Snake Oil salesman, you’ve never touched autocad in your life and drew this junk up on a napkin. Now I’m forced to learn a new GUI that I hate on top of having to go through all the extra steps it forces me to take. What’s next in 2012? 3D interface with googgles?

]]> By: Sam West http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2009/02/20/autocad-2010-will-you-miss-the-menu-browser/#comment-3600 Sam West Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:25:20 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=444#comment-3600 Architecture 2009 & 2010 Ribbon Having started with typed commands and progressed (25 years) to having over a hundred shortcut icons reflects some recognition of the value of reducing the time it takes to execute a command. I believe CAD was created to reduce the amount of time required to create a drawing. A short analysis concludes that a $1,000 per month operating cost add on, caused by the additional input time required, is not out of the question. If you have not considered this in its full effect. Over a time span of ten years this is $120,000. Every single user who depends on executing an action as fast as possible need to run their own analysis. The commands need to be executed faster, not a Microsoft marketing directors version of a "cool" GUI. Architecture 2009 & 2010 Ribbon

Having started with typed commands and progressed (25 years) to having over a hundred shortcut icons reflects some recognition of the value of reducing the time it takes to execute a command. I believe CAD was created to reduce the amount of time required to create a drawing.

A short analysis concludes that a $1,000 per month operating cost add on, caused by the additional input time required, is not out of the question. If you have not considered this in its full effect. Over a time span of ten years this is $120,000. Every single user who depends on executing an action as fast as possible need to run their own analysis.

The commands need to be executed faster, not a Microsoft marketing directors version of a “cool” GUI.

]]> By: Chris Cowgill http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2009/02/20/autocad-2010-will-you-miss-the-menu-browser/#comment-3301 Chris Cowgill Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:09:26 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=444#comment-3301 The only reason I have used the menu browser is for my company custom routines and for the express tools. As AutoCAD 2010 is shipping with an express ribbon tab, and I have created a ribbon for our custom office tools, I no longer require the functionality of the menu browser. When the ribbon is anchored to the left, it does not take up any more screen space than the palettes I already have anchored to the left, and therefore is a compromise that I am satisfied with. Besides, when the ribbon is anchored, the big A becomes a small A: more screen space all around. The only reason I have used the menu browser is for my company custom routines and for the express tools. As AutoCAD 2010 is shipping with an express ribbon tab, and I have created a ribbon for our custom office tools, I no longer require the functionality of the menu browser. When the ribbon is anchored to the left, it does not take up any more screen space than the palettes I already have anchored to the left, and therefore is a compromise that I am satisfied with. Besides, when the ribbon is anchored, the big A becomes a small A: more screen space all around.

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