2004 Multiline toolbar button

[CADTutor]

I'm just in the process of updating the AutoCAD tutorials for 2004 and I've come across something curious.
On the "Drawing Objects" tutorial I have a section covering the Multiline command and in the past I've shown the corresponding toolbar button for reference. The problem I have is that on my AutoCAD 2004, the Multiline button is blank!

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

Sure, there's an entry for Multiline in the Customize toolbars dialogue (see below) but the button image is blank. You can even create a custom toolbar with the blank Multiline button, which works (see above) but...

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

I notice that Multiline is not the only command without a button image. Does everyone else have the same thing with 2004?

[Kate M]

I don't have a multiline icon either -- looks like Autodesk decided some commands weren't worthy of an image...maybe they're only intended for use in pull-down menus, although why that would be I don't know.

[CADTutor]

I just had some feedback on this from my good friend Michael Beall. He says...


Here's my suspicion. Mline didn't have a lot of users, primarily because A) It would be great for creating roads/streets but Mlines could not have fillets applied to their intersections; B) They would be great for illustrating wall details but Mlines could not be converted/extruded to 3D to which would be useful as a wall section; and C) If you had dissimilar Mlines intersecting, the clean-up routines were nominal at best.

Bottom Line: Legs on a fish. Pointless; other methods to get from point A to point B.

Parallel line solution: Dline.

Thankfully they put the Revision Cloud on the Draw toolbar; something that will be used with more regularity, I'm sure.

So now I'm wondering why Autodesk didn't just leave in the old image. I notice that the Wipeout image is also missing - did no one use that either?

[f700es]

I just had some feedback on this from my good friend Michael Beall. He says...


Here's my suspicion. Mline didn't have a lot of users, primarily because A) It would be great for creating roads/streets but Mlines could not have fillets applied to their intersections; B) They would be great for illustrating wall details but Mlines could not be converted/extruded to 3D to which would be useful as a wall section; and C) If you had dissimilar Mlines intersecting, the clean-up routines were nominal at best.

Bottom Line: Legs on a fish. Pointless; other methods to get from point A to point B.

Parallel line solution: Dline.

Thankfully they put the Revision Cloud on the Draw toolbar; something that will be used with more regularity, I'm sure.

So now I'm wondering why Autodesk didn't just leave in the old image. I notice that the Wipeout image is also missing - did no one use that either?
That is weird! I never used it myself :oops: . My main grip about 2004 is the revision cloud. I would rather have the one in the r2000/2000i/2002 Express Tools anyday. No comparrison in my book.

http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/getpicture.php?id=410997

[Mr T]

Looks like a bug.

I has an image just that it's grey !

Nick

[hyposmurf]

I'm sure they didnt intentionally leave a button image blank!Is odd though,maybe someone should ask Autodesk for an explanation?