Size of Open and Import Icons in Home Window

[dmckee101]

I just downloaded 2012 and can't wait to get started, the previews have looked great, but....

I'm disappointed from the start by the continued diminutive size of the Open and Import buttons on the Home window. I say diminutive because the New Part button has 87x more click area than the File Open button, (150 x 150 px vs 16 x 16 px). Being in the minority, I realize many may not share my irritation. After all how many people really reopen files they've created or take more than one session to complete a design?

Previews of the great strides that Alibre has made in the user interface impressed me so much that when I started 2012, I was just caught off-guard by the relativly teeny icons. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the other buttons weren't so huge by comparison. </grousing>

 

[Mibe]

I agree.

And how often have you used "Create BOM" from this menu?

Hopefully the BOM will go away and "Open model" will replace it, but placed to the outer left.

 

[GaretDH]

"Ctrl+O", or "alt, f, m" is faster for us keyboard-based guys...

 

[dmckee101]

I used the Create A BOM button once to see how it worked. Since you can CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS IF NOT EXISTS IF NOT EXISTSs or even manually edit lines in a BOM this Create A BOM button seems redundant.

Seriously though, this Home window sends a message every time it opens; creating new files is more important than editing, continuing, maintaining or importing existing files. It looks like a marketing design, a pleasant GUI aimed at simplifying things for the new user. Those new part/sheetmetal/assembly/drawing buttons are useful, but File Open is used just as much or more on my system.

 

[dwc]

+1

The icon is so small I never use it but go to the file menu (in 2011)
In general I need months to complete a design.
Complicated parts and only limited time each day to work.

I hope that this new UI does more than just take up more valuble space on the screen as it does in MS products.
As my present project is almost finished I am waiting to update for the moment,
will start the next using 2012.

Don

 

[dmckee101]

I've been using it for a couple days now and the new part/assy GUI is sure different, but I think I'll embrace it once I'm familiar with it.
There's going to be an adjustment period just like I had when AutoCAD went to the icon menu from the text based menus (there's an aged analogy :wink: ).