F/X CAD ACAD Ribbon (Introduced with F/X CAD 2016)

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Power Tip: Using our Customized AutoCAD Ribbons

• Reorganized Express Tools
• Bigger Buttons and Titles
• Manage Tab: Cleanup Panel and Clean Export Tool
• Drop-Down Menus With Memory

Starting with F/X CAD 2016, we created a new, retooled version of the AutoCAD ribbon. Conceptualized by our in-house landscape architects, our ribbon redesign is tailored specifically to landscape and irrigation design. It's like a complete desk organizer set for your CAD interface!

Incorporating the same simple, intuitive design you've come to expect from the Land F/X Ribbons, our new and improved ACAD ribbon features:

• Large icons and titles for easy recognition. The most common tools have the largest buttons.
• Less clutter, with more grouped drop-downs and no buried flyouts
• Grouping of ACAD tools by similar type.

Here are just a few examples of the new features available on our redesigned ACAD ribbon:

Reorganized Express Tools

We love the AutoCAD Express Tools, but we thought they'd be even better in their proper context.

AutoCAD ribbon, Express Tools tab, left half

AutoCAD ribbon, Express Tools tab, right half

In our redesigned ribbon, the Express Tools are integrated into the tabs where they apply. For example, we've taken what was known as the Convert to MText tool on the Express Tabs ribbon and moved it to the Annotate ribbon with the other text tools, renaming it Text to MText.

Convert to Mtext button, AutoCAD Express Tools ribbon

New Text to MText button, Annotate ribbon

Bigger Buttons and Titles

If you're like us, you've spent an inordinate amount of time hunting through the AutoCAD ribbon for the tool you need. With that struggle in mind, we made the tool buttons much easier to find.

For example, we overhauled the Dimensions panel on the Annotate tab, making the tool buttons bigger and the text easier to read.

AutoCAD ribbon, Annotate tab, Dimensions panel

Redesigned ribbon for F/X CAD 2016, Annotate tab, Dimensions tab

Manage Tab: Cleanup Panel & Clean Export Tool

As you likely know by now, drawing corruption is a major issue for CAD users. Properly cleaning your drawings is your best safeguard against the perils of corruption. To help with the cleanup process, we added a new Cleanup panel to the Manage tab.

This panel includes the following three AutoCAD tools, which may already be familiar to you:

• Delete Duplicates
• Purge
• Audit

It also includes a tool rolled out with F/X CAD 2016: the Clean Export tool.

Clean Export automates our Manual Drawing Cleanup steps, giving you a quick and easy alternative to our equally valuable Nuke tool for cleaning your drawings.

Drop-Down Menus With Memory

The drop-down menus on our new ribbon have memory, meaning the last tool you used from each drop-down stays active in both the ribbon button and the drop-down menu.

For example, if you last used the Polygon tool from the Rectangle drop-down, Polygon will remain active for the next time you need it.

By remembering the tools you use most and keeping them active, this feature streamlines your design process by helping you jump back into them quickly.