Topic: Anyone *like* 2009?

[Antisthenes]

haha

3d strech, now that would be scale1d right?

[kdub_nz]

[ignore user]

[architecture68-raff]

Command: scale1d
Unknown command "SCALE1D".  Press F1 for help.

[Josh Nieman]

haha

3d strech, now that would be scale1d right?

... again?

[Jeff_M]

I would LIKE LOVE to be able to use 2009. As it is, I was told this morning to "Get this thing ready to submit A.S.A.P., but it MUST be done in LDT3 since we will be working in tandem with <insert rival firm's name here>".

This "thing" is a flatland, small-lot, subdivision that was setup and started a few years ago to be a 4 phase project. Each phase fits perfectly at 20 scale on a 24x36 sheet. Now it is to be combined into 1 project and keeping it split up into those 4 sheet sets (grading, utilities, surface improvements, erosion, signing & striping) does not make sense. The boss says, just change the scale to 30 scale and it will all fit nicely, just like before........but that means the text is no longer the correct height, changing it changes the relationship to surrounding items, the profiles will need to be redone completely since 20 & 5 does not easily convert to 30 & 5. All of this would be much easier, if only I had C3D2009 as a choice to use.

<sigh> Off to my little world to 'fix' these drawings that would almost fix themselves if I could redo them a 2009 product.

Maybe I can convince the boss tomorrow morning that even keeping the 20 scale plans in 2 sheet sets is better than redoing the whole enchilada at 30 scale.

[Antisthenes]

Scale1D

Changes the size of selected objects in one direction.
Steps:
Select objects.
Pick an origin.
Type the scale factor, or pick two reference points.
The objects expand or contract in the single direction specified, without expanding the objects in the other directions.
History enabled…
Changing the input objects changes the output objects

like i said the Lisp you are trying to make exists in this command is one of my favorite commands

[Josh Nieman]

Scale1D

Changes the size of selected objects in one direction.
Steps:
Select objects.
Pick an origin.
Type the scale factor, or pick two reference points.
The objects expand or contract in the single direction specified, without expanding the objects in the other directions.
History enabled…
Changing the input objects changes the output objects

like i said the Lisp you are trying to make exists in this command is one of my favorite commands

I think you're in the wrong thread, dude.

[daron]

Must be an IntelliRhino thing?

[KewlToyZ]

So far with 2009, Reference Manager seems more stable 
The quick properties is neat but causes quite a bit of overhead on resources to negate its usefulness.
Unless you have a dual or quad core machine can't use it.

I like the ribbon system in concept, but the cui is lousy at editing it.
I have to close down and reopen AutoCAD completely every other edit,
otherwise the cui acts like it is doing something,
wastes a bunch of time, then does no changes when applied......
Also the ribbon seems to only do AutoCAD/MEP's stock ribbons or my custom ribbons.
Refuses to mix the two for some reason which sort of kills any potential for adoption.
The Enterprise cui and standard MEP cui seem to be in conflict constantly.

Some things seem faster, and I do like the quick standard toolbar being editable.
I have had fatal errors occur but the system did not crash and close. it continued to work.

[Josh Nieman]

"It's only a flesh wound" errors?

[Bob Wahr]

I've run into that with 2008 a few times.  I think it's a fatal error in an arx, not acad itself.

[KewlToyZ]

"It's only a flesh wound" errors?"
LOL Monty Python errors would be considerably more enjoyable.

So far any work I did with it, no problems.
I'm stubborn, I want to see what advantages I can take with the new features.
Just painfully slow to redesign my customizations.
Using the cui causes all of the crashes so far.
I may just have to go back and totally redesign from scratch moving from 08 to 09.
And that is painfully slow with over 2000 buttons and routine combinations.

I have never liked the cui myself. But it is all we have to work with.
I have done some limited editing with TextPad outside of using AutoCAD with the cui.
But the new features I have to get used to the code structure before getting too anxious to do simple text editing.
Unfortunately it gets difficult to do large amounts of tool copy and pasting which is supposed to be the entire reason for having it. :ugly:

[Guest]

Just painfully slow to redesign my customizations.
...
And that is painfully slow with over 2000 buttons and routine combinations.

Jumpin' Jesus on a pogostick!!!  Two THOUSAND??!?!?   

[deegeecees]

[hijack]
Speaking of pogo sticks, saw this on a PBS (I think) station the other night:

http://www.vurtegopogostick.com/Vurtego/vertigo.php3

Check out the "Videos" section.

[/hijack]

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[KewlToyZ]

Just painfully slow to redesign my customizations.
...
And that is painfully slow with over 2000 buttons and routine combinations.

Jumpin' Jesus on a pogostick!!!  Two THOUSAND??!?!?   

We have our own MEP interface already developed before ever using ABS/MEP.
It is all based on lisp routines and block libraries wrapped up into a decent package for 3 disciplines.
That is why MEP is not critical to us yet. I'm just slowly developing it to replace the legacy NCS interface.
Provided I can set things up to be intuitive for the users, they'll adopt it.
I'm trying to implement nearly 100 workstations and 80 users while minimizing training and costs by transparently controlling standards.