AutoCAD 2006 and menu files

[sinc]

I share your frustration. This is going to be a gigantic step backwards in productivity in maintaining my Co.'s libraries.

Just what was wrong with a little text based code?

ACK!

Relax a little bit, and give it a chance!

Customization before was a huge pain. Everything was spread out all over the place. It required manual editing of multiple files in multiple locations and everything. It was a convoluted, unadulterated mess.

The CUI is puts a whole bunch of the customization all in one place. It's "yet another new thing to learn", and the UI is buggy and jumpy in this first version, but it is a major step in the right direction. Autodesk's standard "Wait until next year's version, and maybe we'll fix the bugs" is annoying, but isn't that business as usual with Autodesk?

Don't despair! It is now very, very easy to move customizations from one computer to another, once you get the hang of it. There may be some transition pains in this version, but hopefully(!) the next version will fix much of that. All in all, this is a move Autodesk needed to do years ago.

[Ferroequine]

Don't despair! It is now very, very easy to move customizations from one computer to another, once you get the hang of it. There may be some transition pains in this version, but hopefully(!) the next version will fix much of that. All in all, this is a move Autodesk needed to do years ago.

I will partially agree with you. However, things are different when the users use the menus from a central location only; I have no need to move customizations and menus from one computer to the next, because everything is centrally administered and standardized.

The way that the pull-down and image libraries have been handled is poor at best. What I could accomplish in 10 minutes of code edits using a good editor (not notepad ) in the MNS file will now take up to an hour, due to the extremely clunky and graphical nature of the interface.

I'm sure looking forward to see what 2007 has to offer.

[RobertB]

I'm sure looking forward to see what 2007 has to offer.

More of the same. Get used to the CUI editor.