transform the autocad ribbon graphic interface 2012 into the classic one

[marchionili]

I have on the pc autocad 2012 but I can't use it because it is completely different from the version I used previously (autocad 2004) and I would like to change the standard graphic interface with the older one with the classic square icons around the screen. I know you can do it, but I can't. I would like to be able to work in a work environment more similar to carcad 2004 otherwise every time I have to do something I use half an hour to look for the command.
Thank you.

 

[Tristan]

changes the work area. gear in the bottom right, click on it and select the "classical" entry. but try to get used to the new leash slowly, you will earn it in productivity:wink:

 

[liber]

but try to get used to the new leash slowly, you will earn it in productivity

probably it is true, but according to my experience at least 80% of people using autocad, always do the usual things and that is use it as autocad 2000i (and I don't want to go to older versions)
a 10% using autocad realizes that for his work is insufficient and prefers map, civil architecture,, with preferably matching with raster design,
the last 10% really uses autocad for its work with a good 90 % of functions used, including 3d, render etc etc.
because then they use autocad instead of other less expensive, badge issues, and also because compared to the economic versions is more stable.

 

[marchionili]

thank you! :finger: :biggrin: :biggrin: wawww! thank you thank you, finally my beautiful graphic interface! siiiii!!! Thank you!

I use autocad to make 2d and 3d and having learned to use the program that way I do not see the reason why to change to do exactly the same things. I find the absurd complication. I expect autodesk to think more and more of the program and perhaps to introduce some more commands. Taking money to complicate my life would be a masochistic trend. my idea is that updating the program only to change interface is not only hateful but absolutely useless. However some steps ahead I think it was made with the 2012 version because I know a new program in the autocad package:inventor fusionWhat do you think of this product?

 

[Legs]

1) I find the absurd complication.
2) inventor fusion

1) regarding the new interface I was also skeptical but I assure you that it really takes little time to get used to.
You're gonna ask why you do it, and I'm telling you it's worth it.
my productivity with the 2012 version and the ribbon interface really increased. I have seen it since the time necessary to produce the tables.
However congratulations if you used the 2004 version for the 3d.
now the 2012 version is another story. is at such a level as to make use of external programs such as rhino or sketchup useless.
now thanks to the use of dynamic gizmos and ucs the 3d is a walk.

2) with regard to inventor perhaps the convenient thing is the possibility to manage the step format rather useful with structural calculation programs even if I admit that for these things I find myself better with the stl format (also managed in the previous versions of autocad) more than anything else because now I know where to put my hands in order not to have problems.
Perhaps one day I will try to understand this strange way of working which have the programs for mechanics

 

[roberto 2011]

from what I saw the ribbon menu (or horizontal ribbon vulgarly speaking) is a bit faster but occupies more space on the screen and, above all, does not allow to recover all the customizations that have developed over the years on the drop-down menus (pop?) and workshops. If I'm wrong,

autocad occupies a lot of space to establish the type of entities and their color when they are definitely more manageable quickly using layers with a certain color and a certain line.

Maybe I will be back but still today there is no direction to say to autocad creates that certain layer without having to pass on the layer box, import a block that already has that layer or other diavolerie.

following the various books I have put so many predetermined layers that you create or accept the selected entities according to a simple command line like this:

^c^c_select \(nlayer "mis" "200" nil) -layer _p _no mis;_chprop _p; _la mis;

means: transfer selected entities to the layer called mis, layer with 200 color that should not be printed

nlayer says:

(defun nlayer (name color ltype)
(if (tblsearch "layer" name) ;if exists
(command "layer" "n" name"); leave it... .
(progn; other
(setq regen (getvar "regenmode")) (setvar "regenmode" 0)
(command "layer" "n" name) ; it creates
(if color (command "col" color name) ;set the color if specified
(if ltype (command "lt" ltype name)); set the line type if specified
(command ") ; end of the layer command
(setvar "regenmode" regen)
);
);
(princ)
);
;

 

[zrarchitetti]

1) regarding the new interface I was also skeptical but I assure you that it really takes little time to get used to.
You're gonna ask why you do it, and I'm telling you it's worth it.
my productivity with the 2012 version and the ribbon interface really increased. I have seen it since the time necessary to produce the tables.
However congratulations if you used the 2004 version for the 3d.
now the 2012 version is another story. is at such a level as to make use of external programs such as rhino or sketchup useless.
now thanks to the use of dynamic gizmos and ucs the 3d is a walk.

2) with regard to inventor perhaps the convenient thing is the possibility to manage the step format rather useful with structural calculation programs even if I admit that for these things I find myself better with the stl format (also managed in the previous versions of autocad) more than anything else because now I know where to put my hands in order not to have problems.
Perhaps one day I will try to understand this strange way of working which have the programs for mechanics

the ribbon interface is much more inefficient for those who make a "typical" use of autocad, than the traditional one. count the clicks you make to draw a circle, put the mark of the center, update the odds, then draw a rectangle, insert a user dashboard with distance 4 between the lines, then select it and change the line type. are much more than double the necessary ones with the old interface.
Despite the extreme inefficiency, the multifunction bar is easier for the neophytes, which in the start card find almost everything you need to begin (but ignore the existence of the regenerative command, and do not explain why they can't zoom back more than much). this greater initial simplicity justifies the choice of autodesk.
for work I see many people working in autocad and I noticed that with the "new" interface, who has to work efficiently uses a lot of keyboard commands (aliases) returning in fact to the interface of autocad 12 (not 2012) to beg the inefficiency of the multifunction bar.
However it is better to get used to it since the new commands and especially those for the 3d are now born and created in the new interface, more interactive, and for example today to make 3d with the classic interface is a madness.

 

[Tristan]

the ribbon interface is much more inefficient for those who make a "typical" use of autocad, than the traditional one. count the clicks you make to draw a circle, put the mark of the center, update the odds, then draw a rectangle, insert a user dashboard with distance 4 between the lines, then select it and change the line type. are much more than double the necessary ones with the old interface.

Are you kidding me? ?
make a circle for ttr for example: old interface 3 click, new only 2. in the old interface there is not even the circle for tan-tan-tan. put the mark of a center: 1 click; update quotas: 1 click; draw a rectangle: 1 click... should I continue?

...but they ignore the existence of the regenerate command, and they don't explain why they can't zoom back so much. .

This is because they are "ignorant, not because you can't do it (even if here some reason I have to give it to you)

However it is better to get used to it since the new commands and especially those for the 3d are now born and created in the new interface, more interactive, and for example today to make 3d with the classic interface is a madness.

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