The Action Recorder was introduced in AutoCAD 2009, under the guise of fulfilling the long standing wish (and former #1 on the Augi wish list) of having a VBA Macro Recorder, similar to the ones available in MS Word, Excel, etc.
Initially, there was some excitement when this was released, but that quickly turned to bewilderment when people started to figure out that the code which this tool created was a new proprietary, binary, un-editable, and undocumented format, also for which there was no API. On top of that, a recorded action itself was virtually uneditable.
I believe there were some enhancements to the Action Recorder in the 2010 release, but did this fix the issues users were complaining about? I really don’t know. Were there any further enhancements in the 2011 release? I don’t recall seeing any.
Which brings me to my questions.
- Are you using the Action Recorder?
- Have you tried and gave up? If so, why?
- Have you just not tried because of feedback from others?
- How much better is the 2011 version than the 2009 version?
- Can this be a useful tool?
