As many of you know, James Wedding and I are busy writing Mastering Civil 3D 2011. I’m having a good night of writing, but once in a while I think you need to sit back – and gripe. I’ve been in a lot of drawings lately, and I need to have a word with you.
Who in the Sam Hell invented the steering wheel, the nav bar, and the view cube? I got in a drawing this afternoon and found it was eating most of screen real estate. This thing – well it’s worse that waiting to stub your toe. Now mind you, there’s a setting for it – somewhere. NAVVCUBE command and you can turn it off from the command line, but that’s not the issue. The freakin’ thing comes back!
And trust me, I know there’s a setting to disable it forever, but should I really need to search for it? I think when you start AutoCAD you should be prompted with: “I’m about to turn on something that will annoy the bejeezers out of you – if you don’t feel like stubbing your toe on it, click here and we will remove it from your system, and every system you touch, until further notice, or the next release. Turning this off, will also permanently set GEOMARKERVISIBILITY off, in every drawing, forever and ever, amen.”
And I think that’s fair! But in the mean time, I’ve created a button on a tool palette – ’cause those I dig:
^C^C_navvcube;off;navbar;off;
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