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planning on making the 05 to 10 jump
uncoolperson:
Using Electrical, and lots of custom stuff.
Anyone got suggestions of things to watch for?
KewlToyZ:
"Custom Stuff" meaning lsp, dcl, dvb, ect...?
Right off the top I ran into a few things when I tested it out.
Custom routines will likely all need updated to new command formats.
The CUI is very slow as a menu editor.
CUI files become compiled cuix files.
Which is a zip file containing all of the menu's and toolbar icons as well as its own mapping codes.
Toolbars just brings up the CUI engine instead, again, extremely slow.
You may have to manually redo all of your image buttons for tool bars.
The Ribbon will look nifty but likely drive you nuts for the resources it eats.
The file format compatability with outside clients.
If you use any AEC content it will only be useful to other 2010 users.
uncoolperson:
--- Quote from: KewlToyZ on June 17, 2009, 10:20:47 AM ---"Custom Stuff" meaning lsp, dcl, dvb, ect...?
Right off the top I ran into a few things when I tested it out.
Custom routines will likely all need updated to new command formats.
The CUI is very slow as a menu editor.
CUI files become compiled cuix files.
Which is a zip file containing all of the menu's and toolbar icons as well as its own mapping codes.
Toolbars just brings up the CUI engine instead, again, extremely slow.
You may have to manually redo all of your image buttons for tool bars.
The Ribbon will look nifty but likely drive you nuts for the resources it eats.
The file format compatability with outside clients.
If you use any AEC content it will only be useful to other 2010 users.
--- End quote ---
yeah, lisp and junk... started the transition to 08, but work picked up and I had to do other stuff.
Not looking forward to the ribbon.
No one outside of this company get's our files, only pdfs.
I'm really concerned about the electrical stuff, the way I have stuff working the electrical stuff doesn't really function anything like it was intended to, now it works like the sales team convinced my boss it would (and then some, *big self back pat*). none of the electrical commands are retained, the ideas and available functions are used though.
KewlToyZ:
If you are using the Electrical vertical then it would be in your best interest to setup your default template file with everything standardized to your needs. Like the layer keys, AEC content libraries, etc...
More often than not, when you send the files out to outside parties you end up using the -ExportToAutoCAD function.
Other than that, you will have some time involved setting up your layer structure to your liking then re-using that as your default template everytime the interface opens. Reference your clients files as XREF's into the template.
How many users do you have in your place? (If you dont mind me asking?)
uncoolperson:
10 and 6, two depts... the 6 4 will be using it for the electrical, the 10 will be fighting with me and probably never do anything to any kind of standard.
edit: forgot that group got smaller over the last few weeks
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