Choose the best things about AutoCAD 2009 (up to 3)
- Ribbon (6%, 2 Votes)
- Menu Browser (6%, 2 Votes)
- Quick Access Toolbar (6%, 2 Votes)
- Smaller floating toolbars (9%, 3 Votes)
- Status bar changes (6%, 2 Votes)
- Action Recorder (15%, 5 Votes)
- Modeless layer interface (21%, 7 Votes)
- Quick View Layouts/Drawings (9%, 3 Votes)
- Quick Properties (15%, 5 Votes)
- Spell checking in text editor (30%, 10 Votes)
- Rollover tooltips for objects (15%, 5 Votes)
- Enlarged tooltips for user interface (0%, 0 Votes)
- ViewCube (18%, 6 Votes)
- Steering Wheel (3%, 1 Votes)
- ShowMotion (0%, 0 Votes)
- Geographic Location (3%, 1 Votes)
- DWFx (3%, 1 Votes)
- Off-white model space background (0%, 0 Votes)
- Drawing recovery changes (6%, 2 Votes)
- Updated button images (3%, 1 Votes)
- LISP bug fixes (12%, 4 Votes)
- Scale List bug fixes (12%, 4 Votes)
- Other bug fixes (12%, 4 Votes)
- Improvements available only in vertical products (18%, 6 Votes)
- Other improvements in base AutoCAD (9%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 33
Start Date: 11 July 2008 @ 2:38 pm
End Date: No Expiry
Do you think the 12-month release cycle is harming the quality of AutoCAD and its variants?
- Definitely (65%, 65 Votes)
- Probably (20%, 20 Votes)
- Don’t know (2%, 2 Votes)
- Probably not (8%, 8 Votes)
- Definitely not (5%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 100
Start Date: 4 July 2008 @ 3:33 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What do you think of AutoCAD 2009’s new button images?
- Love them (9%, 8 Votes)
- Like them (11%, 10 Votes)
- Don’t care much but don’t mind Autodesk doing it (17%, 15 Votes)
- Don’t care much but would prefer if Autodesk hadn’t done it (23%, 20 Votes)
- Dislike them (18%, 16 Votes)
- Hate them (21%, 18 Votes)
Total Voters: 87
Start Date: 30 June 2008 @ 10:49 am
End Date: No Expiry
AutoCAD 2009 non-Ribbon users: why don’t you use it?
- Uses up too much screen space (64%, 35 Votes)
- Doesn’t make good use of my screen size/shape (45%, 25 Votes)
- Using it minimised requires an extra click/hover (47%, 26 Votes)
- Tab concept means extra clicks (65%, 36 Votes)
- Dislike concept of hiding tools - want buttons to stay visible (60%, 33 Votes)
- Tab switching is too slow (45%, 25 Votes)
- Button click reaction is too slow (38%, 21 Votes)
- Turning it off saves startup time (31%, 17 Votes)
- Ribbon content doesn’t match my needs (44%, 24 Votes)
- All the commands should be on it (27%, 15 Votes)
- Express Tools are missing (33%, 18 Votes)
- Other things I use frequently are missing (40%, 22 Votes)
- Too hard to find things (51%, 28 Votes)
- No advantage over existing methods (64%, 35 Votes)
- Customising it is too difficult (44%, 24 Votes)
- Don’t like the colour scheme (16%, 9 Votes)
- Don’t like fuzzy text (ClearType) (25%, 14 Votes)
- Using a vertical product that doesn’t make use of the Ribbon (24%, 13 Votes)
- Want to avoid training expense/inconvenience (18%, 10 Votes)
- Want to avoid initial productivity reduction (18%, 10 Votes)
- Inconsistent with other programs we use (e.g. Office pre-2007) (13%, 7 Votes)
- Opposition to Microsoft’s influence (24%, 13 Votes)
- I’m a Luddite and resist change for the sake of it (7%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 55
Start Date: 20 June 2008 @ 12:01 pm
End Date: No Expiry
AutoCAD 2009 users: in what state do you usually have your Ribbon?
- Horizontal and fully visible (10%, 8 Votes)
- Horizontal and minimised to panel titles (5%, 4 Votes)
- Horizontal and minimised to tabs (8%, 6 Votes)
- Vertical, floating and fully visible (1%, 1 Votes)
- Vertical, floating and auto-hiding (0%, 0 Votes)
- Vertical, docked and fully visible (1%, 1 Votes)
- Vertical, docked and auto-hiding (Anchor left or right) (3%, 2 Votes)
- Turned off (71%, 55 Votes)
Total Voters: 77
Start Date: 28 May 2008 @ 2:25 pm
End Date: No Expiry
How good is AutoCAD 2009? First reactions to shipping product.
- Best release ever (7%, 5 Votes)
- Very good (12%, 9 Votes)
- Good (9%, 7 Votes)
- OK (11%, 8 Votes)
- Fair (15%, 11 Votes)
- Bad (22%, 16 Votes)
- Very bad (7%, 5 Votes)
- Worst release ever (18%, 13 Votes)
Total Voters: 74
Start Date: 1 May 2008 @ 8:49 am
End Date: No Expiry
Dissatisfied Migration voters - how many users do you support?
- Just myself (17%, 3 Votes)
- 2 to 5 (11%, 2 Votes)
- 6 to 10 (17%, 3 Votes)
- 11 to 20 (22%, 4 Votes)
- 21 to 50 (6%, 1 Votes)
- 51 to 100 (11%, 2 Votes)
- 101 to 500 (11%, 2 Votes)
- 501 to 1000 (6%, 1 Votes)
- Over 1000 (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 18
Start Date: 20 April 2008 @ 12:00 am
End Date: No Expiry
Satisfied Migration voters - how many users do you support?
- Just myself (11%, 1 Votes)
- 2 to 5 (22%, 2 Votes)
- 6 to 10 (33%, 3 Votes)
- 11 to 20 (11%, 1 Votes)
- 21 to 50 (0%, 0 Votes)
- 51 to 100 (0%, 0 Votes)
- 101 to 500 (11%, 1 Votes)
- 501 to 1000 (11%, 1 Votes)
- Over 1000 (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 9
Start Date: 20 April 2008 @ 12:00 am
End Date: No Expiry
If you don’t use Migration, why not? (Multiple choices allowed)
- Use an AutoCAD-based product that doesn’t support Migration (13%, 3 Votes)
- Use AutoCAD in its out-of-the-box state so don’t need it (8%, 2 Votes)
- It’s not documented so I don’t know what it will do (17%, 4 Votes)
- It has failed or worked badly in the past (50%, 12 Votes)
- It doesn’t work properly in my environment (42%, 10 Votes)
- Prefer to have a clean start (25%, 6 Votes)
- Have my own tools and methods (46%, 11 Votes)
Total Voters: 24
Start Date: 20 April 2008 @ 12:00 am
End Date: No Expiry
How satisfied are you with AutoCAD’s Migration?
- Totally satisfied (17%, 4 Votes)
- Generally satisfied (17%, 4 Votes)
- Generally dissatisfied (29%, 7 Votes)
- Totally dissatisfied (38%, 9 Votes)
Total Voters: 24
Start Date: 20 April 2008 @ 12:00 am
End Date: No Expiry
Which AutoCAD release is the best when compared with its predecessor?
- Version 1.4 (1%, 2 Votes)
- Version 2.0 (0%, 0 Votes)
- Version 2.1 (0%, 0 Votes)
- Version 2.5 (0%, 1 Votes)
- Version 2.6 (0%, 1 Votes)
- Release 9 (1%, 2 Votes)
- Release 10 (0%, 1 Votes)
- Release 11 (1%, 2 Votes)
- Release 12 (2%, 5 Votes)
- Release 13 (4%, 8 Votes)
- Release 14 (23%, 46 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2000 (12%, 24 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2000i (4%, 8 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2002 (7%, 14 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2004 (4%, 8 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2005 (5%, 10 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2006 (6%, 12 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2007 (8%, 16 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2008 (11%, 22 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2009 (11%, 22 Votes)
Total Voters: 204
Start Date: 20 March 2008 @ 10:18 am
End Date: No Expiry
Speculate on how good you think AutoCAD 2009 will be
- Best release ever (6%, 5 Votes)
- Very good (10%, 9 Votes)
- Good (16%, 14 Votes)
- OK (30%, 26 Votes)
- Fair (20%, 18 Votes)
- Bad (6%, 5 Votes)
- Very bad (9%, 8 Votes)
- Worst release ever (3%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 88
Start Date: 13 March 2008 @ 12:22 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What do you think of advertising on blogs?
- All advertising is evil (14%, 6 Votes)
- Prefer if it wasn’t there (10%, 4 Votes)
- Don’t mind as long as it’s unobtrusive (31%, 13 Votes)
- Just ignore it (14%, 6 Votes)
- Don’t care, it’s the content that matters (12%, 5 Votes)
- It’s up to the blogger, nothing to do with me (2%, 1 Votes)
- If it helps keep a good blog running, it’s a good thing (14%, 6 Votes)
- Love advertising and click on links all the time (2%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 42
Start Date: 6 March 2008 @ 12:23 pm
End Date: No Expiry
AutoCAD 2009’s model space background defaults to off-white. If/when you use 2009, would you change this?
- No, I love its creamy goodness (9%, 9 Votes)
- Yes, to white (4%, 4 Votes)
- Yes, to black (53%, 54 Votes)
- Yes, to some other light shade (12%, 12 Votes)
- Yes, to some other dark shade (8%, 8 Votes)
- Yes, to some other mid-range shade (5%, 5 Votes)
- Don’t know, I will try it and decide later (10%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 102
Start Date: 6 March 2008 @ 10:28 am
End Date: No Expiry
Which AutoCAD release was the first you ever used?
- Version 1.0-1.3 (4%, 4 Votes)
- Version 1.4 (3%, 3 Votes)
- Version 2.0 (2%, 2 Votes)
- Version 2.1 (7%, 7 Votes)
- Version 2.5 (5%, 5 Votes)
- Version 2.6 (10%, 10 Votes)
- Release 9 (11%, 11 Votes)
- Release 10 (17%, 17 Votes)
- Release 11 (8%, 8 Votes)
- Release 12 (14%, 14 Votes)
- Release 13 (6%, 6 Votes)
- Release 14 (6%, 6 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2000 (2%, 2 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2000i (0%, 0 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2002 (0%, 0 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2004 (0%, 0 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2005 (3%, 3 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2006 (1%, 1 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2007 (0%, 0 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2008 (0%, 0 Votes)
- AutoCAD 2009 (2%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 101
Start Date: 1 March 2008 @ 7:28 pm
End Date: No Expiry
