2007 setup

[Anonymous]

2007 just arrived so I have installed it (before the first service pack even!). Bit rash for me!

First thing:-

How do I turn off the fancy effects -
The flashing of wires and components as I move the mouse over them?

The tooltip when I start to select a window?

And, most important, the animated zooming when I "zoom window" (makes me sea sick)?

What new useful things should I look out for? I notice that there are some interesting new commands to investigate.

Will I still be able to open my ACE 2005 projects? What happens when I save them in 2007?

Thanks,

John

[Anonymous]

Hi John,

I think that you can disable the animated zoom window by forcing system
variable VTENABLE to 0.

Try deselecting the "DYN" button along the bottom of your AutoCAD screen to
turn off the dynamic tooltips and prompts.

I'm not sure how to turn off the auto-highlighting as the cursor moves over
entities. Maybe someone can help...

Nate.


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2007 just arrived so I have installed it (before the first service pack
even!). Bit rash for me!

First thing:-

How do I turn off the fancy effects -
The flashing of wires and components as I move the mouse over them?

The tooltip when I start to select a window?

And, most important, the animated zooming when I "zoom window" (makes me sea
sick)?

What new useful things should I look out for? I notice that there are some
interesting new commands to investigate.

Will I still be able to open my ACE 2005 projects? What happens when I save
them in 2007?

Thanks,

John

[Anonymous]

Thanks, that seems to do it. VTENABLE was set to 3 - not sure what that means - but now set to 0 and back to normal!

Have sorted out the other things - from the options menu.

I notice that MDI is on by default. Should I stick with this or is it better to change to SDI?

Have not tried to do any serious work with 2007 yet! Just playing with it at the moment.

John

[Anonymous]

MDI is very nice but, in my opinion, you need to exercise an extra bit of
discipline. It's easy to end the work day with some forgotten, hidden
drawings opened and prompting you for permission to discard changes. If you
don't remember what you might have done earlier in the day on these drawings
(was it just a ZOOM WINDOW or was it something substantial?) then it can
become an anxious decision time.


wrote in message news:5145500@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks, that seems to do it. VTENABLE was set to 3 - not sure what that
means - but now set to 0 and back to normal!

Have sorted out the other things - from the options menu.

I notice that MDI is on by default. Should I stick with this or is it
better to change to SDI?

Have not tried to do any serious work with 2007 yet! Just playing with it
at the moment.

John

[Anonymous]

Good. Much happier with SDI.

Thanks,

John

[Anonymous]

Hi John,

You can turn off the fancy effects -If you goto the Tools --> Options--> Selection.

And mark out the 2 items by Selection Preview

Regards,

Gerald