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In a recent comment, I was asked how to make Ctrl+C perform a Cancel. Before I get onto that, here’s a bit of history. Back in the Dark Ages of DOS, the way to cancel a command was by holding down Ctrl and pressing C. The last release to work like this by default [...]  27 May 2011, 11:33 am |  Leave a comment | Tags: Control C, Crtl+C, CUI, DOS, Keyboard Input, Release 13, Windows | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, Customisation, Nostalgia, Tip In AutoCAD 2011, the default action when double-clicking on a hatch object is to invoke the Properties palette for that object. In previous releases, it would invoke the Hatch Edit dialog box. In my AutoCAD 2011 – Putting things back to “normal” post, I briefly described how to restore the old double-click action. I [...] 10 May 2010, 12:39 pm |  32 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, CUI, Double Click, Hatch, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD 2012, AutoCAD 2013, Customisation, Tip I’ve closed the poll that asked AutoCAD 2009 users about their MENUBAR setting. It’s very clear that pull-down menus are still very much in use in the Ribboned world of post-2008 AutoCAD. In AutoCAD 2009, an attempt was made to provide access to pull-down menus without sacrificing that strip of screen real estate. That [...] 20 February 2009, 2:48 pm | 6 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, CUI, Menu, Polls, QAT, Tip, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010, Customisation, Polls, Tip Warning, CAD nerd stuff ahead. This is a long and technical post and if you’re using AutoCAD in a largely out-of-the-box state you probably won’t care about any of it. If your modification of AutoCAD extends beyond the trivial, you may find it useful to know what AutoCAD loads, and in what order things [...] One of the many unfinished aspects of the AutoCAD 2009 Ribbon is the lack of Express Tools content. One enterprising user has put the effort into correcting this, and has posted an Express Tools CUI replacement in this Autodesk newsgroup thread. I have not tested this myself. As usual with CUI, be paranoid. Back [...] 13 June 2008, 2:49 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Bug, CUI, Customisation, Express Tools, Ribbon, Speculation, Tip | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Tip I noticed in Ralph Grabowski’s latest upFront.eZine that Autodesk has announced that 100 developers have 200 add-ons working with its 2009 series of software. I hope I’m not supposed to be impressed by those numbers. I remember when Autodesk boasted about having over 3500 third-party developers. What happened to the other 3400-odd? This is [...] 29 April 2008, 4:11 pm | 4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, CUI, Third-Party Developers | Category: AutoCAD 2009, Development, Other Blogs One of the things I like least about AutoCAD 2009 (at least in Release Candidate form) is that I find it very “sticky”. That is, I find myself having to wait for an instant here, then again there, yet again over there. Most of my testing has been on a middle-aged Pentium 4 (3.0 [...] 15 March 2008, 2:30 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, CUI, Performance, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Performance 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 |
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