Who's afraid of 2006?

Ok....

I'm now one man do all and since move into AutoCAD 2005, I get stuck [I must admit like it] in the SSM.

My projects or production CD's are average 50 sheets and would like to hear what improvements this feature has....

I realize, that I ask for the publish to plot, to be more reliable and it is.... I was confuse about it.... actually you can click on the sheet by pressing the CTRL key then right-click to the menu-context menu and click into the publish-to-plotter....

I am waiting to get my copy of 2006.... and start playing around.....

Let me think of something and if I come with a good question/exercise and if you got the time, I would like to hear from your always expertise answers.

LE.

 

I haven't been that brave yet. I got twitchy after about 30 seconds after I
turned it off and brought it back on. lol.

But, I am looking down there less and less these days. If you'd asked me 6
mos ago how I thought I would handle it, I would say i'm a diehard cmd line
junkie and there's no way... well, i've gotten used to it... and now it
makes me twitchy to go back to 02 or 05 and have to keep looking down. lol.

 

Dave,
They've done a nice job with dynamic input and heads up display. I can't say
why I've kept the commandline except that I'm used to looking a a specific place
for prompts and that feels comfortable for me. With CTRL+9 and CTRL+0
(commandlinehide and cleanscreen) there is plenty of drawing space and the
dynamic input helps those who haven't memorized the prompts.

 

In that case, I'll be in no hurry to upgrade. Although this will of course
be helpful to people who have done development work in version 2004 and 2005
it just seems silly that Autodesk continues to require the use of software
that is no longer sold by its manufacturer.

 

"down there"?? LOL...I haven't had my command line at the bottom of the
screen in years and my neck/shoulders are better for it
Dave

 

thanks Doug...can't wait for my 2006 to arrive, I ordered it yesterday. What
is the official release date btw?
Dave

 

lol. As always, it's apparent to me that there's so much more for me to
learn... it never really occurred to me to put it any place else...

 

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=387980

~Melanie Stone

 

Where is the command line set to for 2006? It's not at the bottom anymore?

I know during presentations I put the command line at the top for people to see better.

 

What do you mean refedit breaks the dynamic blocks? It's no longer a dynamic block anymore then? I was wondering how refedit will work with them. We do refedit all the time here, since each job is slightly different.

 

the default position is still at the bottom.
but, why be default when you can be custom (or, turn it off! ctrl 9 to
toggle?)

 

Yes. Once refedited, it is no longer dynamic. It is still a valid block
but you have now adapted it to a specific task or look that you want.
With properly designed dynamic blocks you may find much less need
to refedit. Double clicking on a dynamic block (or a regular block
for that matter) will launch bedit rather than refedit in 2006.

You can still refedit but must use a right click launch for it.

Does that explain it?

Regards,
Doug

 

So, bedit pretty much does the same thing as refedit, just for dynamic blocks instead?

I want to see the product. We are using Architectural Desktop so we probably won't get 2006 for another couple months after people get vanilla AutoCAD.

 

thanks, March 22nd would have done it
Dave

 

about 10 years ago I started having muscle spasms in my back right below my
shoulder blades. Moved the command line to the top of the screen right below
the menu dropdown list and haven't had a problem since as it's now right at
eye level on my Sony 24" monitor. Try it, you might like it
Dave

 

ohhh, God, I think I'm going to have a....uh, I'm going to heaven
Dave

 

I agree. I have been using AutoCAD since v2.5 and am so used to the command
line being down there.

I have been using 2006 for almost 8 months (since alpha testing) and still
can't get used to the dynamic input. I like it and don't want to turn it
off, but I still look down at the command line. It will be a hard habit to
break. It's weird going back to 2005.

 

Doug, try this for me:
Enter this twice at the command line in 2006 (display it if needed <G>):
(command "undo" "begin")

does it error the second time?
If so, the undo bug is still present.
What happens is the next command or routine that uses undo begin, will cause an error.
The LDT Alignments->Set Alignment Current is a classic one that glitches out from not closing and undo begin...
Curious to see if its fixed.

"Doug Broad" <>
|>You shouldn't be.
|>I have used it for a while and found it easy to continue using it as if I was using 2005.
|>The
|>new features workshops do a great job of introducing the changes. Many of the new
|>features
|>will quickly become things you rely on.
|>
|>My customizations continued to work.
|>
|>While I have chosen to continue to use the command line, many will like the new dynamic
|>input features which allow you to enter commands and read prompts at the cursor location.
|>
|>The biggest change of thinking will be adjusting to the powerful new dynamic blocks
|>feature.
|>
|>If any of you have questions about 2006 or customizing it, I'd be glad to try to answer.
|>
|>Regards,
|>Doug
|>

James Maeding
jmaeding at hunsaker dot com
Civil Engineer/Programmer

 

No error for me. Did it 5 times. (command "undo" "be")
The ACAD team spent a lot of effort squashing bugs, not to say that
there aren't any left I'm sure. ;-)

 

oh, baby. If they fixed that, life will be good.
thx for the test.

"Doug Broad" <>
|>No error for me. Did it 5 times. (command "undo" "be")
|>The ACAD team spent a lot of effort squashing bugs, not to say that
|>there aren't any left I'm sure. ;-)
|>
|>
|>
|>"James Maeding" <jmaeding at hunsaker dot com> wrote in message |>> Doug, try this for me:
|>> Enter this twice at the command line in 2006 (display it if needed <G>):
|>> (command "undo" "begin")
|>>
|>> does it error the second time?
|>> If so, the undo bug is still present.
|>

James Maeding
jmaeding at hunsaker dot com
Civil Engineer/Programmer