Topic: AutoCAD 2010

[JCUTRONA]

What's the consensus?  I'll have to make decision to upgrade or not (though I wonder if upgrade is included in our maintenance package).

Wanted to get opinions of everyone here.

Thanks

[TimSpangler]

I didn't see anything worthy of the headaches of upgrading (esp. from 09).

$0.02

[James Cannon]

I'll be upgrading the office to it, mainly because it's a new file version (though everyone will be set to save-down to 07 file type) just in case someone sends us a 2010 type file.

Also mostly upgrading because one person is still on 07, three on 08, and I'm the only one using 09.  I've finally gotten enough time to customize a partial CUI file to have a good couple Ribbon tabs for expediting and increasing use and ease of conforming to company standards and some tools to expedite detailing.  Should be a good reason to get everyone to WANT to upgrade as well.

All that is nothing I couldn't accomplish with 09 though, so it's not really specific to 2010.

However, I have been wanting to mess with parametric blocks to see if I can come up with any applications where they'd work... but I think I may like to wait until the bugs are worked out to make sure no "surprises" come my way if I start using them.

Otherwise... nothing terribly impressive to me.

[KewlToyZ]

I'm waiting for the MEP version to be released before making any decisions.
I'm still upgrading everyone to 2009 MEP yet, I have 30 machines to go.

Beware of the DIMREASSOCIATE issues for making dimensions associative again with the 2010 version.

[Sjano]

nope.

large corporations i have seen and work for have not upgraded past 2007
and there are just too many more affordable, more compatible and more powerful options available to do the same thing in the IntelliCADs. Not to mention Rhinoceros is the current all-star killer application.

[KewlToyZ]

I have to agree Rhino/McNeel is an outstanding company and product.
Autodesk has been giving me lip service far too often instead of actually doing anything about the issues we faced with their last 3 deployments. Instead of fixing things they just keep moving sideways to trade the problems for a different set... It is getting annoying especially for the amount of cash we are paying them. It is absurd to say the least.

[KewlToyZ]

Currently I have 2 bugs that are killing 2009:
Layer Manager crashes
Publishing Crashes

I'm about ready to tell Autodesk we want the money back for it.
I don't give a ^%$# if 2010 "supposedly" has it fixed.
They couldn't get it right in 2 service packs on 09 I don't want the sequel.
Let alone yet another upgrade of our systems and the wasted time installing.
I'm pretty fed up right now.  :pissed: :realmad:

[rhino]

me likes 2010

http://adskmedia.com/autocad_2010/

- major improvement is proper PDF support (finally)
- constraints seem to be an added benifit (if u like rotating your plans that is)
- ribbon is context sensitive now...
- 3d free form if thats your thing

[KewlToyZ]

Has anyone found a compatible program to open a cuix file?
I can always go back and edit cui files with notepad, but cuix.... 

[James Cannon]

Has anyone found a compatible program to open a cuix file?
I can always go back and edit cui files with notepad, but cuix.... 

I -heard- cuix is just a .cui in a .zip file.

Try winzip? heh :/

[KewlToyZ]

Thanks that helped loads, WinRar opened it and it contains everything broken up into the images and individual cui files for each component group.
Pretty interesting, but the cui editor is slower than ever.

[James Cannon]

Thanks that helped loads, WinRar opened it and it contains everything broken up into the images and individual cui files for each component group.
Pretty interesting, but the cui editor is slower than ever.

whaaaaaaaaaaaat... it got SLOWER?  dude   that's a pain.  I hope it doesn't work out that way for me.  I'm still waiting for my 2010

[KewlToyZ]

You can download the AutoCAD or the MEP versions from their website online?
A few strange silly things, all of the XREF commands have XREF in them or their descriptions except XREF (shortcut in the pgp to ExtrenalReferences)
Toolbars disappeared after editing in the cui.... cant right click anywhere to bring them up have to go to the menu's.

Customizeable quick access menu is now in the cui and not just the workspaces.
Ribbon is still slow and no matter if you delete all references from the ribbon in a workspace it still comes back like a cancer after editing in the cui.
Blank and useless but it has to be there until I undock and close it. So I placed a ribbon button in the quick access menu to kill it.
Although I am debating about creating my toolbars completely as ribbons and doing away with toolbars completely by the time I implement it.

[James Cannon]

You can download the AutoCAD or the MEP versions from their website online?

our internet has been crap, and I'm in no real hurry to install.

[JohnK]

*sigh* I hate Autodesk.