Solid Toolbars Confusion!

[CADTutor]

I think I may have mentioned this in the past and it's a relatively small thing but IT DRIVES ME MAD :reallymad:

I've just spent the day giving a course on Solid Modelling and 3D skills in AutoCAD. Take a guess what aspect of the topic caused more confusion than anything else. UCS? Shade Modes? Extrusions along paths? Boolean operations? No.

This caused the greatest confusion - see if you can spot it:

http://www.cadimage.net/cadtutor/solid_tools.gif

Well it confuses me and it sure as heck confuses beginners. Why oh why does Autodesk persist in using the same toolbar icon for the Extrude command and the Extrude Faces command - it's complete madness!

OK, OK I've got that off my chest. Does anyone have an explanation?

:cry:

[fuccaro]

I can not explain why. I didn't see that until now. I enter a lot of commands from the keybord.
You may teach your students to customize the toolbars by creating/changing the icons.

[hyposmurf]

Is that in 2005?With these new releases coming out more rapidly I fear they are geting sloppy.I seem to remember CADtutor you pointing out that in the 2004 version the multiline menu icon has no bitmap assigned to. :roll: Click here (http://cadtutor.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=843&highlight=multiline)

[CADTutor]

There's nothing new in this. The two button icons have always been the same, ever since Extrude Faces was introduced. I know I could customize this for my own use but when you're in a lab teaching 40 students on networked licences that you have no control over, there's very little that can be done to avoid the confusion.

It just seems odd to me that since Autodesk have spent so much time improving the interface in the last few versions that these anommalies still exist. :o