Group command - LT vs AutoCAD

In AutoCAD, the Group command has always seemed like a comand that could
potentialy be very useful, but is let down by an awkward user interface
IMHO.

Anyway, some time ago (about 2000) a friend who used LT pointed out to
me that the user interface for the group command was completely
different in LT - in many ways it was the kind of way that I had always
wanted the group command to work in AutoCAD.
At the time I queried this, & people were of the opinion that
modifications might be tested or introduced in LT, but then would
generaly be added to the next version of AutoCAD.
I forgot about this for a while, but was reminded again last week when
sitting next to someone using LT.
The command still works the same in the latest LT as it always has done
in LT & it is simple to create & manipulate unnamed groups. In AutoCAD
2004 though it is still the awkward interface that it always has had in
the full version of AutoCAD.

Why?

I thought that the point of LT was that it was AutoCAD with some of the
features removed - but in this instance, it is instead a feature that
just works differently between the programs.

Is there any easy way to get it to work in 2004 like it does in LT?

 

Hi Matthew,

I completey agree that this makes no sense. I personally have a very
similar issue with the LT version of PURGE which completely,
absolutely outperforms the autocad purge command. The LT version let
you do nested (or not) purge, has a great graphical interface and is
ultra easy to use. The autocad version is not as nice, in my mind.
This might have changed in current versions, but the awesome purge
dialogue for LT was implemented in 1998 as I recall an I have not yet
seen it in AutoCAD.

I think that anyone who had used the LT graphical purge would probably
agree that it works better (and no, I'm not an anti-command line
advocate, but the graphical version in LT works so much better).

This makes no sense to me either - your Groups observation is along
the same line.

Regards,

SMA

 

A graphical purge was added in 2000i - I have never seen the one in LT
though, so couldn't comment if it is the same one or not.

I'd have imagined though as there is so much shared code between the
programs, moving it across once it is in LT ought to be very simple - it
is almost as though they forgot.

 

Great. At least this one made it. My work version is autocad 2000,
which we have not bothered to upgrade yet due to finances and it's
mostly for legacy data.

I do recall waiting for a couple years and being baffled as to why the
graphical purge had not been integrated.

Thanks for the information,

SMA