Do you use Quick Properties (AutoCAD 2009 or later)
Yes, enabled all of the time.
31% (24 votes)
Sometimes
22% (17 votes)
No, it's always disabled
47% (37 votes)
Total votes: 78
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Annoying, annoying, annoying!
As a power user (keyboard freak) i can never stand things getting in my screen unless i summon them. The new Quick Properties is an obtrusive nag following my cursor around the screen every time I click on something. Yet I have met weathered cursor-and-toolbar-loving draftsmen who found it an excellent addition!
I have to admit, I felt the
I have to admit, I felt the same way. But then I was making some edits recently and found myself opening and closing the "big" properties window (closing it because C3D starts bogging down if you leave it open...) - and anyway found the QP much faster. So I fall into the "sometimes" category. Same for the Selection Cycling (3rd image here), it's a great feature, you just can't leave it enabled all of the time.
Quick Properties
The quick properties can be stuck in one place so it doesn't follow the cursor around which makes a much better feature: http://civil3dplus.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/tooltip-mania/
Yet even better a feature is
Yet even better a feature is the auto-collapse mode.