autocad 2016 toolbar names first day of spring

Let’s start with a drawing of our bike opened in the current AutoCAD 2016 3D modelling workspace with a few tool palettes open for good measure. So for those of you pining for the days of the new romantics, miners’ strike, hairspray, rah-rah skirts and shoulder pads, here’s how to reinstate AutoCADs’ “Classic” workspace.

I’m feeling nostalgic… Take me back to the 1980s! These where an early form of toolbar menu and consisted of printed squares that corresponded with the position of the cursor on the tablet. One part of the GUI that never shows up in the screen shots is the tablet menus that adorned the surface of the digitising tablet everywhere. The main elements were the layer and mode display in the top left, coordinates read out, top centre, command prompt at the bottom and the screen menu to the right. Here’s an impression of how AutoCAD looked when I first opened a drawing back in 1985:. Since I first pushed a cursor around a digitising tablet some 30 odd years ago, the worlds’ favourite CAD software has seen more than a few changes but the original interface is still slumbering beneath todays’ sleek and highly efficient display. It does however beg the question, what is the classic workspace? Why after all, would anyone want to return to something so basic and static when the Autodesk development team have poured their heart and soul into inventing new interactive ways to communicate with AutoCAD.ĪutoCAD 2017 is a far cry from the original, with powerful features such as 3D modelling, Database connectivity and PDF import to name a few, so it’s fair to say that some of the most modern features simply won’t be accessible via the “Classic Workspace”. There are those who pour scorn on the notion of a return to a previous user interface.

Autocad 2016 toolbar names first day of spring