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 shocked [...]

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 sports [...]

Here are a couple more tricks AutoCAD 2009 has up its Status Bar sleeve, this time to do with layouts.
You may love the new Quick View Layouts feature or you may find it too slow. You may wish to use it sometimes and at other times use the traditional layout tabs. How do you quickly [...]

Having covered the left side of the status bar, let’s move onto the other side. Some of it is familiar, but much of it is new or modified. Let’s have a look:

This animation shows the following:

The first icon switches to the model space layout.
The next icon switches to a paper space layout, but which one? [...]

Enough of linking to other peoples’ observations about AutoCAD 2009, here are some of mine. There is a lot I don’t like about AutoCAD 2009, and I will be covering that side of things in more detail once I have the shipping product to play with and I’m certain that the bad stuff is still [...]

AutoCAD 2009 is about a month away, but people with pre-release copies are already allowed to start talking about the product. I intend to do so soon, but for now here are a few mentions I found:
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2008/02/the-2009-produc.html
http://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/2008/02/autocad-2009-is.html
http://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/2008/02/the-autocad-200.html
http://heidihewett.blogs.com/my_weblog/2008/02/the-word-is-out.html
http://heidihewett.blogs.com/my_weblog/2008/02/autocad-2009-a.html
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=643193
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=643871
http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/2008/02/some-autocad-2009-thoughts.html
http://rcd.typepad.com/rcd/2008/02/time-flies-its.html
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2008/02/autocad-2009-in-2-minutes.html
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/autodesk-worl-1.html
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/autocad-2009.html
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=31k5jnveooq0qn8ecci6i72o34&topic=21356.0
http://forums.cadalyst.com/showthread.php?t=5808
http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2008/02/13/introduction-to-the-autocad-2009-ribbon/
http://cadit.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/autocad-2009–.html
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