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Autodesk discussion group changes – user reaction

30 June 2010 at 12:36 pm » Comments (0)

I will be airing my own views on the Autodesk discussion group changes in a future post. In the meantime, I have collected some reactions from other users. For the record, there has been ...more »

Command line poll replaced

18 May 2010 at 8:35 am » Comments (7)

For the past couple of months, I have been running a poll about the command line. I ran it using wording copied directly from a Project Butterfly poll, to get ...more »

Ribbon poll roundup

17 May 2010 at 1:36 pm » Comments (0)

Further to my last post, Here is a brief summary of this blog's various poll results that relate in some way to Ribbon and CIP use. The most recent polls ...more »

Autodesk’s CIP data – massively biased?

14 May 2010 at 4:47 pm » Comments (10)

You may have seen Shaan Hurley and I having a discussion (ahem) over the validity of his statement: I really do use the ribbon now with AutoCAD 2010 along with most ...more »

How is your AutoCAD 2011 hatching?

5 May 2010 at 1:11 pm » Comments (5)

Hatching is the poster child for AutoCAD 2011's 2D drafting feature changes (although there are several other significant ones), and also for demonstrating the advantages of providing a contextual interface ...more »

What do I think of the Ribbon?

19 April 2010 at 1:26 pm » Comments (9)

I'm curious. What do you think I think about the Ribbon, particularly in AutoCAD? Do you think I'm a hater, a lover, indifferent, or what? Now, on what evidence do ...more »

AutoCAD Classic Interface Survey

6 April 2010 at 9:41 am » Comments (0)

Twitter throws up a gem every now and then. I just saw this in a retweet by Melanie Perry of a tweet from Autodesk's Elena Fadeeva: AutoCAD Toolbars and Menus Survey I ...more »

AutoCAD 2011′s new Help system – what do you think?

28 March 2010 at 9:20 am » Comments (12)

With all this talk of clouds in the air, it is interesting to note that Autodesk has moved AutoCAD's Help system to a browser-based format, with online access as the ...more »

AutoCAD 2011 – Putting things back to “normal”

25 March 2010 at 9:17 pm » Comments (26)

Easily the most popular post on this blog, in terms of both hits and comments, is AutoCAD 2009 - Putting things back to "normal". Not too far behind it is ...more »

Send your screen to Autodesk

8 March 2010 at 12:21 pm » Comments (1)

No, I don't mean Autodesk is now so impoverished that it is running short of monitors for its staff, I mean send a capture of your screen to Autodesk. Guillermo ...more »

These messages are brought to you by AutoCAD

31 August 2009 at 11:39 am » Comments (7)

Over the past few releases, and particularly in AutoCAD 2009 and 2010, I have noticed an increase in the number of information notices (bubbles, warnings, task dialogs, Communication Center notices, ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Putting things back to “normal”

16 June 2009 at 12:44 pm » Comments (59)

Easily the most popular post on this blog, in terms of both hits and comments, is AutoCAD 2009 - Putting things back to "normal". Lots of people seemed to find ...more »

Revolt of the Revit Ribbon Renegades

11 May 2009 at 4:26 pm » Comments (6)

I hesitate to cover this subject because my understanding of Revit is very close to nil. I'm going to cover it anyway, because it relates to the Does Autodesk Listen? ...more »

AutoCAD 2010 – Will you miss the Menu Browser?

20 February 2009 at 2:48 pm » Comments (6)

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 ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – Do you use the menu bar?

3 December 2008 at 10:30 am » Comments (17)

You may have noticed that I've added a poll to find out if the AutoCAD 2009 users among you are using the menu bar (i.e. MENUBAR = 1). I'm also interested ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – An outsider’s look at the Ribbon

30 October 2008 at 2:41 pm » Comments (0)

Kirill Grouchnikov is a developer who has a blog called Pushing Pixels. This wouldn't normally be of particular interest to AutoCAD users, but he recently wrote a piece describing the ...more »

More Autodesk discussion group angst

24 September 2008 at 4:14 pm » Comments (3)

When you start using the new AutoCAD discussion groups, in addition to the broken search facility, you will have other issues to deal with. There's a new editor with lots ...more »

Autodesk newsgroup changes

24 September 2008 at 10:45 am » Comments (0)

As I mentioned yesterday, the Autodesk newsgroups have been overhauled. After spending yesterday going up and down like a whore's drawers*, the site is now up, albeit still not 100% ...more »

Ease of use and the Ribbon

12 September 2008 at 10:34 am » Comments (5)

I have Office 2007 on my newest computer at home, which I bought primarily to familiarise myself with the Ribbon interface and allow me to discuss it from a position ...more »

You don’t think much of AutoCAD 2009′s buttons

11 July 2008 at 3:10 pm » Comments (0)

I've closed the poll about the button images. It's a general thumbs-down from you on that particular change, albeit not a spectacularly vehement one. I agree with most of you. The ...more »