1. File open/close/save as dialog boxes - please make them remember size, position, and view! I still, after years of asking for this, have to use the 3rd party utility DlgXRsizer to do this. We like to have the window big so you can see all the columns displayed in details view (so we can check to make sure we're using the latest date file).
2. We have a plain paper plotter now so no more "original then copies" system. We plot multiple collated sets. To do this we batch plot to file one set >with sheets in the correct order<, then close the drawing file and from the batch plot menu plot that file multiple times. Wishes: ability to re-order sheets in the list (in case they were not created in the right order), and ability to ADD the same plot file multiple times without having to navigate the directory tree back to the same place multiple times.
3. Since linetypes are now embedded in the drawing file, you can no longer scroll thru ALL the available line types with the "Q" key... you have to go to the line type menu and this takes more time than a quick scroll thru especially when you can hold down the key and the list moves really fast. And then, when you do select a linetype, it takes on the <original> spacing saved with the linetype, rather than the current spacing. So you have to do >another< step and re-set the spacing!
4. I have brought this up a number of times over the years and I will bring this up again. My number one annoyance and biggest time-waster: mouse clicks not registering! Having used DataCAD for over 15 years I really fly on the keyboard and mouse. Many many times each day I'll mouse click on a menu button and THE BUTTON WILL VISUALLY DEPRESS but the program does not respond by going to the next step or whatever. You have to consciously depress the mouse button for a LOOONGGGEERR period of time to have it register. It's not the amount of time spent on a longer click, but on having to go back and do it AGAIN many times a day.
(And it's not just me... many people I have spoken to experience this).
Thanks for listening to my rant!!
2. We have a plain paper plotter now so no more "original then copies" system. We plot multiple collated sets. To do this we batch plot to file one set >with sheets in the correct order<, then close the drawing file and from the batch plot menu plot that file multiple times. Wishes: ability to re-order sheets in the list (in case they were not created in the right order), and ability to ADD the same plot file multiple times without having to navigate the directory tree back to the same place multiple times.
3. Since linetypes are now embedded in the drawing file, you can no longer scroll thru ALL the available line types with the "Q" key... you have to go to the line type menu and this takes more time than a quick scroll thru especially when you can hold down the key and the list moves really fast. And then, when you do select a linetype, it takes on the <original> spacing saved with the linetype, rather than the current spacing. So you have to do >another< step and re-set the spacing!
4. I have brought this up a number of times over the years and I will bring this up again. My number one annoyance and biggest time-waster: mouse clicks not registering! Having used DataCAD for over 15 years I really fly on the keyboard and mouse. Many many times each day I'll mouse click on a menu button and THE BUTTON WILL VISUALLY DEPRESS but the program does not respond by going to the next step or whatever. You have to consciously depress the mouse button for a LOOONGGGEERR period of time to have it register. It's not the amount of time spent on a longer click, but on having to go back and do it AGAIN many times a day.
(And it's not just me... many people I have spoken to experience this).
Thanks for listening to my rant!!
Carl J. Steidel
LAWRENCE S. SCHREIBER, AIA - ARCHITECT
922 East Kennedy Blvd
Lakewood, NJ 08701
732-886-5290
LAWRENCE S. SCHREIBER, AIA - ARCHITECT
922 East Kennedy Blvd
Lakewood, NJ 08701
732-886-5290