Topic: AutoCAD 2012, gripes and hypes

[Daniel J. Ellis]

I love this command line autocomplete feature in 2012.

There is a command called "ETBUG"  and it does phone home. 

Me, too.  Especially that it also works on LISP routines

I'm gonna have to try ETBUG when I get home tonight!!

dJE

[Crank]

I love this command line autocomplete feature in 2012.

There is a command called "ETBUG"  and it does phone home. 

Me, too.  Especially that it also works on LISP routines

I'm gonna have to try ETBUG when I get home tonight!!

dJE

Did your phone ring? 

[Daniel J. Ellis]

Got a ringtone, but didn't actually have a problem to report, but hung up before anyone answered!

dJE

[Mark]

The legacy menu bar contains only AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 commands and has not been updated with new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 commands and features. Therefore, if you display the menu bar, it is important to understand that it does not provide access to all AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 features.

great ....

[M-dub]

The legacy menu bar contains only AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 commands and has not been updated with new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 commands and features. Therefore, if you display the menu bar, it is important to understand that it does not provide access to all AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 features.

great ....

Yeah, nice way of them forcing everyone to adapt to the new systems...

If it helps, you can "minimize" the ribbons so they take up about as much room as the menu bar.

[mjfarrell]

The legacy menu bar contains only AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 commands and has not been updated with new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 commands and features. Therefore, if you display the menu bar, it is important to understand that it does not provide access to all AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 features.

great ....

that's really NOT a problem as there are no new commands that you need there any way.
There are how ever OLD commands that DO NOT appear anywhere on the ribbon that you do need. 

The new stuff is all available through the Select Object>>Rt-Click Context menus.

[Mark]

The new stuff is all available through the Select Object>>Rt-Click Context menus.

Then that's what I'll use! Thanks Michael.

[mjfarrell]

The new stuff is all available through the Select Object>>Rt-Click Context menus.

Then that's what I'll use! Thanks Michael.

No Problema


That little tid-bit is one of the earliest concepts I attempt to convey to my C3D students.

Look not for Commands
Select an object, any object
And the rt-Click menu will present
ALL things you can do to that object, along with a few you shouldn't (like SCALE or ERASE!)

You will also notice there are some crazy powerful command lurking there for corridor modeling as well.
They may or may not be intuitive, however they yield some crazy good productivity methods one can employ.
(those methods will cost you)

[Mark]

< horse race announcer >and they're off ...< /horse race announcer >

Thank you for sending your error report to Autodesk.

[mjfarrell]

< horse race announcer >and they're off ...< /horse race announcer >

Thank you for sending your error report to Autodesk.

waddya want fer that...some balloon animals?         

[Mark]

OK, I give up, where did they hide the plotter files?

[Mark]

OK, I give up, where did they hide the plotter files?

Never mind I found them, in the normal location.
C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D 2012\enu\Plotters

[Krushert]

OK, I give up, where did they hide the plotter files?

Never mind I found them, in the normal location.
C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D 2012\enu\Plotters

It really bugged me that they keep moving them around.  But they must of listen to somebody because now you can path to two locations so you can have your office plotter configs located on the server.

[Matt__W]

It really bugged me that they keep moving them around.  But they must of listen to somebody because now you can path to two locations so you can have your office plotter configs located on the server.

I've always had our company standard CTB/PC3 files located in a read-only network folder and pathed in AutoCAD.  And in that network folder was a shortcut to another folder (read/write access) that had client CTB/STB files.  So whenever we got a drawing from an outside source and they included their CTB/STB file for plotting, the CTB/STB file was placed in the read/write folder and also showed up in the printer dialog box dropdown with the company standard CTB files.  Every 6 months I would ZIP up the files in the read/write folder because the dropdown list would get too long.

[KewlToyZ]

It really bugged me that they keep moving them around.  But they must of listen to somebody because now you can path to two locations so you can have your office plotter configs located on the server.

I've always had our company standard CTB/PC3 files located in a read-only network folder and pathed in AutoCAD.  And in that network folder was a shortcut to another folder (read/write access) that had client CTB/STB files.  So whenever we got a drawing from an outside source and they included their CTB/STB file for plotting, the CTB/STB file was placed in the read/write folder and also showed up in the printer dialog box dropdown with the company standard CTB files.  Every 6 months I would ZIP up the files in the read/write folder because the dropdown list would get too long.

I always did that and networked all of the page setups to import for the publish dialog so it minimized plotting issues.