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    February 13, 2008

    AutoCAD 2009 - What's New...

    So after month's of having to "put up with", "get used to" and re-learn where my commands were hiding in Microsoft Office 2007, the dreaded "Ribbon" interface has been added to AutoCAD. This is likely to be the initial response of many users when presented with the new AutoCAD 2009 Interface, but wait a minute... there's more, unlike Microsoft's change to the Office products, Autodesk have provided the users with the choice of using your standard interface. Not only that, you have a combination of the Ribbon interface and your well known pull down menu system.

    When I looked at the first beta's of the latest version of AutoCAD, I have to say my initial reaction was... "Oh no, not the ribbon, anything but the ribbon!". Unfortunately I was going through the painful transition from Microsoft Office 2003 to 2007 at the same time, and not having much fun!

    Initial reactions are important, and I believe a lot of people will have similar reactions when faced with the new AutoCAD 2009 UI, but give it a chance...

    I have to say, and I know I'm probably opening myself up to some criticism... but in my opinion I believe Autodesk have done a good job here. After a relatively short time spent looking at the options Autodesk have given us in the 2009 UI, in particular, access to our familiar pull down menu structure, increased drawing area real estate, command tooltips/help system, I like it.

    What's New...

    • Application Window
    • Ribbon Interface
      2009newui  
    • Tooltips
      2009tooltip  
    • Menu Browser
      2009menubrow  
    • Quick Properties
      2009qprops  
    • Quick View Layouts
      2009qvlayout  
    • Quick View Drawings
      2009qview  
    • 3D Navigation...
      Steering Wheel
      2009sterwhel 
      and ViewCube
      2009viewcube  
    • Action Recorder
       2009acrecord
    • ShowMotion
      2009showmotion

    Other Improvements...

    • File Navigation
    • Task Dialogs
    • Interactive Array Preview
    • Modeless Layer Management
      2009laymgr  
    • Find and Replace
      2009findreplace
    • XREF Clipping - with grip editing of the clip frame
      2009xrefclip
    • Lighting
    • Working with DGN files
    • InfoCenter

    Here are some further links to good sources of AutoCAD 2009 information...

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    Comments

    Same old AutoCAD, great new look. Really, Autodesk, limit your new releases to every two years and make them worth it! It will take a couple of months just to get used to the new look but with seemingly few "real" functional upgrades and new features. I'm sure the UI changes are good, but this release will just be another example of why they should update every two years.

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