
AutoCAD2011ProductivityStudy
16 ©2010DavidS.Cohn
ThankstotheimprovedfunctionalityinAutoCAD2011comparedtoAutoCAD2008,Ianticipatedproductivity
improvementsinanumberofareas:
• Thenon‐modalLayerPropertiesManagerpaletteinAutoCAD2011wouldmakeiteasiertocreateand
controllayersforeachpart.
• Actualdrawingandeditingtasks
wouldbefasterthankstothemoreintuitiveribboninterfacein
AutoCAD2011.
• Navigatingwithinthe3DmodelwouldbefasterandeasierinAutoCAD2011thankstotheViewCube.
• Manipulatingthevarious3Dobjectsbothduringtheircreationandlater,whenmovingthemintothe
properpositionwithin
theassembly,wouldbeeasierthankstotheenhanced3DgizmosinAutoCAD
2011.
• EnhancementstovisualstylesinAutoCAD2011wouldmakeiteasiertoseethevariousobjectsused
tocreatetheindividual3Dparts.
• SelectingoverlappingobjectswouldbemucheasierinAutoCAD2011thanks
tothenewselection
cyclingfunctionality.
Whileallofmyassumptionsprovedtobetrue,thedifferenceinproductivitybetweenAutoCAD2008and
AutoCAD2011wasnotaslargeasIexpected.Thistasktook3hours:20minutestocompleteusingAutoCAD
2008comparedto2hours:50minutesusing
AutoCAD2011,animprovementof15percent.Therewasa
significantimprovementinthetimerequiredtomodelthe3DpartsinAutoCAD2011comparedtoAutoCAD
2008.ButthisadvantagewasthenreducedbydifficultiesencounteredwhenusingtheSectionPlanetoolto
create2Dorthographicviewsofthe
individualparts.WhencreatingtheseviewsinAutoCAD2011,the
softwarecontinuouslyreportedthat“Thesectioncreationoperationdidnotgenerateanygeometrybecause
ofthepositionofthesectionobject,”amessagenotencounteredinAutoCAD2008.Asaresult,inAutoCAD
2011Ihadtorepeatedlyrepositionthesection
planesinordertocreatetheseviews,whichprovedtobea
timeconsumingprocess.
Task#7:A3Dmachineviceassemblywithseparatesheetsforeachpart
AutoCAD2011was15percentmoreefficientinthecompletionofthistask.Theoverallimprovementwould
havebeenmuchgreaterifnotforthedifficultiesincreatingthetwo‐dimensionalviewsinAutoCAD2011.
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