A Common Language

One of the largest and loudest complaints I receive year over year is the lack of a common language for the newest software UI.  “They” changed the name or icon for this or that.   I can’t find this – it was right here. Some time I wish they would just Read the <insert appropriate French utterance> manual !

Since I was doing just that this afternoon, I figured that I should install Windows Live Writer on my Win7 RC laptop and post an entry on a nice simple file that I found.

If you browse to the installation directory of Civil 3d (like C:\Program Files\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010\Help) you will find a couple of nice items:

Civil_UserInterface_Letter_en.pdf is stored in c:\Program Files\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010\Help\ While it is a nice short PDF file (3 pages), it helps bridge us to a common language for the new 2010 Civil 3d User Interface.

Since the Ribbon is new to us Civil Engineers – there is also a nice Where Is My Command? command locator help file too!

One response to “A Common Language”

  1. kurt baldwin

    The links to the pdf and the “Where Is My Command?” are not working.

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