I’ve opened a poll asking for your opinion about whether the 12-month release cycle of AutoCAD and its variants is harmful to the quality of the software that Autodesk is providing. I won’t express my own opinion on this subject here yet, but will do so later, once the poll is closed. In the [...]
 4 July 2008, 4:09 pm |  16 comments | Tags: 12-Month Release Cycle, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Polls | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Polls I was interested to see Shaan Hurley reporting the Ribbon usage figures from the Customer Involvement Program (CIP). Shaan’s figures show Ribbon non-users at 46%, my poll results show it as 71%. Why the discrepancy? Is somebody telling fibs? I don’t think so. First, blog nauseam poll respondents represent a biased sample, comprising people [...] 25 June 2008, 8:45 pm | 5 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, Ribbon, Shaan Hurley, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Polls Following on from the earlier poll to find out what you were doing with the Ribbon (mostly turning it off, apparently), I’ve added a poll for those of you who are using AutoCAD 2009 Ribbonless. I hope I’ve covered all the bases with my 23 possible reasons! You can pick as many or as [...] 20 June 2008, 8:57 pm | 6 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, Ribbon, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls It would appear from comments made on the Autodesk newsgroups that a lot of AutoCAD 2009 users have their Ribbons turned off. That’s actually one of eight possible states for the Ribbon to be in. Is it really the most popular configuration? Does it apply to 12.5% of you or is it more than [...] 28 May 2008, 3:08 pm | 23 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, Ribbon, User Interface, User Reaction | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls I’ve closed the poll asking for your initial reactions to the shipping release of AutoCAD 2009. It’s interesting to compare it with your reactions when asked to speculate prior to the release date. It seems your collective opinion of AutoCAD 2009 has taken a sharp drop now you’ve actually had a chance to use [...] 28 May 2008, 2:58 pm |  Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, User Reaction | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls I have added two more polls (see right) about this subject making a total of four. I have an inkling that the people most dissatisfied with Migration are those with many users to support, and I’m interested to know how accurate that impression is. If you voted that you were totally or generally dissatisfied [...] 23 April 2008, 11:09 am | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Migration, Polls | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls After a month and 204 votes, I have now closed the poll that asks the above question, but it can still be found in the polls archive. There were 20 choices, so you might expect an “average” release to attract 5% of the votes. You might also expect there to be relatively few votes [...] For a few years now, AutoCAD has allowed you to migrate your settings forward from an old release to a new one. Since AutoCAD 2006, this has included your custom CUI stuff. How well is this mechanism working for you? I will keep my opinions to myself for now, but I’m interested in yours. [...] 21 April 2008, 11:19 am | 4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, Migration, Polls | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls Some people have now received AutoCAD 2009, or at least downloaded it, which you can do (legally!) here, as long as you’re in the United States or Canada. I’m closing the AutoCAD 2009 speculation poll. Other than a small blip on “Very bad”, the poll follows a typical bell curve nicely, with the peak [...] 27 March 2008, 9:35 am | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Polls, User Reaction | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls I’m interested in people’s perceptions of the forthcoming AutoCAD release. Based on what you’ve seen so far, how good a release do you think it will be? Please speculate using the poll on the right. If you feel the poll doesn’t give you the opportunity to adequately express yourself, feel free to add a [...] 13 March 2008, 12:42 pm | 4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2009, Opinion, Polls, Speculation | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2000, Polls I’m gradually getting the hang of this blog maintenance business. The Polls Archive page, which was broken with a 404 error, is now fixed. If you run across any other problems on this site, please let me know. I’ve added a new poll: have fun! |
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AutoCAD 2009 – Why do you hate the Ribbon?
Judging from the results of the Ribbon usage poll (and the usual poll caveats apply), you are turning off AutoCAD 2009′s Ribbon in droves. I’m surprised. I thought there would be a significant minority of 2009 users who turned it off, but it looks I was wrong and it’s a large majority. The non-Ribbon [...]