C3D 2009 SP2 (aka Update 2 aka Version 3)

[brainman1000]

We have not experianced this issue here at my office. in fact I just xrefed a file from vault about 2 minutes ago..

I found it. The function is still in the drop down menu at the top of the xref window, it is missing from the right-click menu.

[gandocadguy]

I found it. The function is still in the drop down menu at the top of the xref window, it is missing from the right-click menu.

Did you add it to your right click menu? Because the CUI file is replaced with the service pack.

[brainman1000]

Did you add it to your right click menu? Because the CUI file is replaced with the service pack.

I shouldn't need to add it to the right-click menu. It came like that stock and disappeared after installing SP2.

[gandocadguy]

Oh I never used it in the right click. didn't know it was there. And now obviously it's not.

[brainman1000]

Oh I never used it in the right click. didn't know it was there. And now obviously it's not.

When you right click in the xref window you get a menu. This is where the 'Attach from Vault' should be:

[gandocadguy]

Interesting. I just did some looking. When I have files attached from Vault I can right click in the xref window and it is greyed out. If I have a drawing without references then it is not an option.

[brainman1000]

Interesting. I just did some looking. When I have files attached from Vault I can right click in the xref window and it is greyed out. If I have a drawing without references then it is not an option.

Thats exactly what I'm talking about. The drop down at the top of the xref window still has the function and still works, but the right click does not.

[gandocadguy]

Thats exactly what I'm talking about. The drop down at the top of the xref window still has the function and still works, but the right click does not.

Also, If I right click on the main files name in the xref box the only option I get is attach from Vault.... I pick it an nothing ever comes up. So I think they dropped the ball on this one. Though I never used it prior to the service pack so I won't miss it.

Service packs are supposed to fix things not remove features.

[stephen.cowling]

I think it also holds the record for being the world's most advanced software that can't easily put delimiters in numbers (eg 1,000,000 instead of 1000000).

Hi Sinc,
Have you seen this?
http://beingcivil.typepad.com/my_web...el-labels.html

sorry for the OT...
and of course you're right, it's definitely not straighforward!

[sinc]

Yeah, I know that trick. In fact, I believe I first saw it in a post Peter Funk (at Autodesk) made to the Autodesk newsgroups. Or maybe it was in an article Dana wrote, where she said she had gotten the trick from Peter. But that was a couple of years ago, which means Autodesk has known about this issue for a long time now, and we are still left with this really esoteric and twisted way of formatting numbers.

It gets even worse when you start trying to format numbers bigger than 1,000,000. You can do it, but it's really annoying. And every different number range requires its own style, so you have to make sure you use the right style for each label, and you have to make sure to change all your labels to the right style if you edit your design...

Contrast this to most other software, which can not only format numbers with a delimiter in a very easy fashion, but can also let you specify which character to use as the delimiter (you can even use a space character, if you want), and many even let you specify whether or not to include the delimiter for four-digit numbers, so you can choose whether it displays "4325" or "4,325".

But of course, it's not like C3D is gaining a reputation as being rather obtuse and difficult to learn, or anything like that, right?