![]() After a while users seem to get used to the ribbon. The ribbon takes some getting used to, especially for those that have customized their menus, or for those that live for toolbars. If two monitors are being used (like me) then the ribbon can be put on either screen. It can also be undocked and placed either horizontally or vertically any where on the screen. The groups and tabs can be accessed by hovering the cursor over the desired group or tab. To allow for more screen realestate, the ribbon can be minimized. Users can create new tabs or modify any existing tab through the CUI. Each tab can be pulled out and placed anywhere on the screen (just like toolbars.) They can be put back too. The ribbon is collapseable, and the tabs have fly outs. Each group has different tabs, which act like tool bars. These work similarly to the pull down menus of old. Out of the box, there are six groups of TABS to choose from. (I haven't used that menu since release 12 in DOS.) In case you were worried, the display screen is still there, it is turned on/off in options. ![]() By the way, tool pallets are still here, thank goodness. How is it used? The ribbon is really a combination of the pull down menus and the tool bars. Autodesk chose to call it the ribbon to keep a familiarity between different software packages. The ribbon is really the dashboard, but on steroids. It isn't even listed as a topic in help! The poor dashboard was only here for two releases. If DASHBOARD is typed in at the command line the ribbon will turn on. It can be collapsed, docked, undocked, the tabs moved around and more. AutoCAD's ribbon works virtually the same, except that it can be customized. If you have used Microsoft Office 2007 then you will be familiar with the ribbon concept. Here is a screen shot of AutoCAD 2009, out of the box (except that I changed the background to black, it comes in white.)Īs you can see, there are no tool bars and the pull down menus are gone. Those users that take advantage of tool bars, pull down menus, and the dashboard, well, you will see a huge change. What I mean is that if yo type i your commands, then the change will affect you less. ![]() command line users, you won't really care. The good news is that I will have plenty to post about for a while. AutoDesk is starting up the fanfare, getting out the press releases because March is around the corner.
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