Choose the best things about AutoCAD 2009 (up to 3)
- Ribbon (4%, 4 Votes)
- Menu Browser (2%, 2 Votes)
- Quick Access Toolbar (2%, 2 Votes)
- Smaller floating toolbars (3%, 3 Votes)
- Status bar changes (3%, 3 Votes)
- Action Recorder (8%, 7 Votes)
- Modeless layer interface (8%, 7 Votes)
- Quick View Layouts/Drawings (3%, 3 Votes)
- Quick Properties (6%, 5 Votes)
- Spell checking in text editor (12%, 11 Votes)
- Rollover tooltips for objects (6%, 5 Votes)
- Enlarged tooltips for user interface (0%, 0 Votes)
- ViewCube (9%, 8 Votes)
- Steering Wheel (1%, 1 Votes)
- ShowMotion (0%, 0 Votes)
- Geographic Location (1%, 1 Votes)
- DWFx (2%, 2 Votes)
- Off-white model space background (0%, 0 Votes)
- Drawing recovery changes (3%, 3 Votes)
- Updated button images (1%, 1 Votes)
- LISP bug fixes (6%, 5 Votes)
- Scale List bug fixes (4%, 4 Votes)
- Other bug fixes (4%, 4 Votes)
- Improvements available only in vertical products (7%, 6 Votes)
- Other improvements in base AutoCAD (3%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 37
Start Date: 11 July 2008 @ 2:38 pm
End Date: No Expiry
Do you think the 12-month release cycle is harming the quality of AutoCAD and its variants?
- Definitely (65%, 66 Votes)
- Probably (20%, 20 Votes)
- Don't know (2%, 2 Votes)
- Probably not (8%, 8 Votes)
- Definitely not (5%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 101
Start Date: 4 July 2008 @ 3:33 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What do you think of AutoCAD 2009's new button images?
- Love them (9%, 8 Votes)
- Like them (11%, 10 Votes)
- Don't care much but don't mind Autodesk doing it (17%, 15 Votes)
- Don't care much but would prefer if Autodesk hadn't done it (23%, 20 Votes)
- Dislike them (18%, 16 Votes)
- Hate them (22%, 18 Votes)
Total Voters: 87
Start Date: 30 June 2008 @ 10:49 am
End Date: No Expiry
AutoCAD 2009 non-Ribbon users: why don't you use it?
- Uses up too much screen space (8%, 35 Votes)
- Doesn't make good use of my screen size/shape (5%, 25 Votes)
- Using it minimised requires an extra click/hover (6%, 26 Votes)
- Tab concept means extra clicks (8%, 36 Votes)
- Dislike concept of hiding tools - want buttons to stay visible (7%, 33 Votes)
- Tab switching is too slow (5%, 25 Votes)
- Button click reaction is too slow (5%, 21 Votes)
- Turning it off saves startup time (4%, 17 Votes)
- Ribbon content doesn't match my needs (5%, 24 Votes)
- All the commands should be on it (3%, 15 Votes)
- Express Tools are missing (4%, 18 Votes)
- Other things I use frequently are missing (5%, 22 Votes)
- Too hard to find things (6%, 28 Votes)
- No advantage over existing methods (8%, 35 Votes)
- Customising it is too difficult (5%, 24 Votes)
- Don't like the colour scheme (2%, 9 Votes)
- Don't like fuzzy text (ClearType) (3%, 14 Votes)
- Using a vertical product that doesn't make use of the Ribbon (3%, 13 Votes)
- Want to avoid training expense/inconvenience (2%, 10 Votes)
- Want to avoid initial productivity reduction (2%, 10 Votes)
- Inconsistent with other programs we use (e.g. Office pre-2007) (2%, 7 Votes)
- Opposition to Microsoft's influence (3%, 13 Votes)
- I'm a Luddite and resist change for the sake of it (1%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 55
Start Date: 20 June 2008 @ 12:01 pm
End Date: No Expiry
AutoCAD 2009 users: in what state do you usually have your Ribbon?
- Horizontal and fully visible (10%, 8 Votes)
- Horizontal and minimised to panel titles (5%, 4 Votes)
- Horizontal and minimised to tabs (8%, 6 Votes)
- Vertical, floating and fully visible (1%, 1 Votes)
- Vertical, floating and auto-hiding (0%, 0 Votes)
- Vertical, docked and fully visible (1%, 1 Votes)
- Vertical, docked and auto-hiding (Anchor left or right) (3%, 2 Votes)
- Turned off (72%, 55 Votes)
Total Voters: 77
Start Date: 28 May 2008 @ 2:25 pm
End Date: No Expiry