Stability

[Anonymous]

OK so constructive criticism. This is going to be hard for me. If Autodesk could do anything it should be the stabilizing of the product. I spend more time trying to recover from glitches, crashes, broken links, lost associations, and a myriad of minor issues. I'm sure I have well beyond the minimum hardware requirements. I've been using this software since it was Generic CAD. I know this has a lot of bells and whistles and with all of those one has a potential for issues but the primary purpose of this software is it's reliability. When a fabricator has to work with the drawings generated by this software they need to be as accurate and stable as possible. When the drawings fail, typically the detailer is at fault. Sure a detailer needs to be disciplined and double check ones work. If that detailer can't rely on the stability and accuracy of the software then the detailer has to check every little thing. This is in essence like redrawing the entire drawing. Even if the detailer is fastidious about this process, there is no guarantee they'll find each and every error. Still, nobody remembers how the drawings were 95% correct or even 99% correct. They just remember the 1% that was wrong and maybe rightly so. That 1% could potentially cost thousands of dollars. A simple dimension that has lost it's connection or dimscale is enough. The program crashing right in the middle of a highly technical engineering process causing one to loose train of thought or a subtle detail is enough. These and other things happen way to often. I experience these things 2 or 3 times a day. I save every other command for fear of loosing what I've done. I've started looking at other software and found other products that provide better stability. Still, I'm the user working with a firm that pays for the software. I don't get to choose. This is why I'm sending a plea to Autodesk to clean up the program.

[pendean]

What year-version and variant of AutoCAD are you using?
What is your Windows OS version?
What is your video card?
Are these sudden new problems?

>>>...A simple dimension that has lost it's connection,,,<<<
That can be as simple as not snapping to an object. Elaborate more.

>>>... or dimscale is enough,,,<<<
Explain: "dimscale" reliance is an older option most have drifted away from with annotative dimstyles.

>>>... The program crashing right in the middle of a highly technical engineering process...<<<
Like what/ Explain in detail.

>>>... causing one to loose train of thought or a subtle detail is enough...<<<
You bet it does.

>>>.... These and other things happen way to often...<<<
Like what?

[Anonymous]

Autocad standard 2017

Windows 10 pro

AMD Firepro W5100

These are problems that have always been there through multiple versions on multiple computers on multiple operating systems.

dims loose there connectivity without any real consistency to say one way or the other why. I typicaly snap to objects when i get the little snap identifier. If that doesn't work consistently then maybe that's the problem but I'm not getting an annotative error so..... I did notice that if a 2D object moves in model space even a fraction though it stays within the viewport in paper space it looses it's connection. Then there's the dims that won't connect because there's a wipeout. Old problem i know and i gave up on that one but it's yet another issue. then there the grips that won't work with drawing created by viewbase. Or dims that won't keep the correct dimscale though the process used to create the dim is typical.

Autocad crashes constantly for multiple reasons that I can not describe at this point because it didn't just happen. Autodesk gets crash reports from my current machine and multiple machines before that. Where do all of those reports go? It seems like they should exist and the symptoms should be logged into those reports. So it should be pretty easy to ferret out the cause.

Viewbase fails to hold onto the solids it has selected.

Linetypes in viewbase are maybe 4 total. Drafting standards require well more then that even in terms of just telling a story.

Object and point selection are unstable. Better then 3DS max but still

UCS control is dodgey. When jumping from viewport to viewport the UCS should keep the UCS of the viewport one is in, not the previous. I've reset this multiple times but it goes back. Could this be that I use quick keys and trip over the quick key combination by accident? Maybe, but should it be that easy.

When selecting an object and then initiating a command I get a tone that I'm floating over that object or it modifies that object. Either has me stuttering in my process.

I can't remember all of the other things that drive me crazy but there are more. Now alot of these I've learned to work around but when one looks at the quantity of issues one has to "work around" then it starts to wear on you. Then the software crashes. Then you hand off a drawing to find little inaccuracies that you missed during the redline double check process.