Ribbon

First look at Hatching and Transparency in AutoCAD 2011

by Donnie Gladfelter on April 4, 2010

in AutoCAD 2006,AutoCAD 2011

Out in San Francisco during the AutoCAD 2011 Product Launch Event I took a first look at 3D Surfaces inside AutoCAD 2011. As powerful as 3D AutoCAD has become, 2D remains a mainstay of what many AutoCAD users do on a daily basis. After all it’s still 2D plan sheets that get things built. On [...]

{ 3 comments }

Creating Custom Contextual Ribbon Tabs in AutoCAD 2010

by Donnie Gladfelter on December 29, 2009

in AutoCAD 2010,AutoCAD 2010,Videos

I certainly hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and got to spend some quality time with your family. Thanks to a rather historical snow the Saturday before Christmas, here in Richmond, VA we did still have snow on the ground for Christmas.  Aside from the big piles of snow found in nearly every parking lot [...]

{ 6 comments }

Creating Multiline Ribbon Tool Display Names

September 30, 2009

Recently I’ve had a few people ask me about modifying the display names of ribbon tools inside AutoCAD 2010. More specifically; how to make AutoCAD show the display name for a tool on two lines (not just one). With the question growing in popularity, I figured it was time to make a quick post on [...]

Read More →

Easily find Ribbon Commands

September 26, 2009

As illustrated by my blogging frequency, the last several weeks have been incredibly busy. During that time I had the chance to speak with a large number of AutoCAD (and its many vertical flavors like Civil 3D) users, and answer some of their burning questions. As you might imagine, I fielded a diverse range of [...]

Read More →

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Gets Ribbonized

March 20, 2009

Ever since Microsoft launched Office 2007 the trend has undoubtedly shifted from the traditional interface employing menus and toolbars, to the “new and improved” ribbon. Users of vanilla AutoCAD got ribbonized with last year’s 2009 release. While a classic workspace was still shipped with the product, the ribbon was an integral part of the default [...]

Read More →

AutoCAD 2010 – The New Contextual Ribbon

February 15, 2009

Among the “big new things” inside AutoCAD 2009 was of course a new user interface. At the heart of this new user interface was the all new Ribbon. Love it or hate it, the ribbon is still inside AutoCAD 2010, but with some new enhancements.  While I got used to the Ribbon inside AutoCAD 2009, [...]

Read More →

← Previous Entries