AutoCAD Civil 3D Wishes

[#1]

I HATE the Ribbon in 2010. In 2009 you could switch to "AutoCAD Classic". Any such options in 2010? I'm tired of everything taking 2-3 extra steps than it did in 2009.

[#2]

You can turn on the "menu bar" and then turn off the ribbon and you will have the old 2009 Civil 3D menu to use.

NOTE: New commands for 2010 have only been added to the ribbon

Cheers,

Peter Funk
Civil 3D Product Manager
Autodesk, Inc.

p.s. The ribbon was designed to be contextual - that is, once an object is selected, the ribbon will change to present the commands for that object. For example, if you want to edit a surface, select the surface and the ribbon changes to present the commands to label and edit a surface.

[#3]

One thing that I find aggravating about the ribbon is how it changes context
when you pick an object and the tools you wanted to use on it disappear.
Sometimes that is what you want and sometimes it's not.

There is a system variable: RIBBONCONTEXTSELECT that toggles the context
switching behavior of the ribbon. Setting the variable to Zero will disable
context switching. When it is disabled, your current ribbon panel remains
available when you pick an object. Thus if you have the Home panel active
and pick a Civl 3D object such as a surface or feature line, your Home panel
with all the properties and basic manipulation tools will be available in
case you want to change or freeze the layer or whatever. At the same time
the contextual panel will appear as a tab and is available if you want to
access the special tools for editing the objects.

To have the best of both options..switch or no switch, I made a simple
command alias (RCS) to toggle context switching on or off. That way I can
easily switch to the mode that best suits the tasks at hand. By setting
RCS=0 the Ribbon becomes more like a Pallete for your tool bars. It is
pretty handy that way.

See my post in the C3D forum entitled: "Ribbon Select Context" on 2/17/2010
for a screen recording of the behavior.

HTH.