TABLE OF CONTENTS A lot of the marketing surrounding AutoCAD upgrades claims that they will boost your productivity. Although this may be true in theory, there are other issues to consider. Increasing productivity means getting more done per unit of time.
Assuming your boss buys into the marketing and now expects more productivity out of you after upgrading to AutoCAD 2007, here are some options: either stop yakking on the phone so you "waste" less time, or work later in the evening and spend more time to get the job done. On the other hand, you may really learn to use AutoCAD more efficiently yak all you want and go home early. The latter option is what this section is about.
In Chapter 1, we suggested that you hide the command line in favor of entering commands and their options dynamically on-screen at the cursor to increase your productivity. Maybe it doesn't sound like much to you newbies, but many veteran users are going to need therapy over this; but you're probably in therapy already if you've been using AutoCAD that long (not to knock therapy, therapists, or the therapeutic profession).
Jesting aside, sometimes dynamic input is too distracting, too Las Vegas, annoying you with its visual clutter. Maybe you just want to draw a circle, and you don't need to see the prompt, coordinates, and command options on screen. You know how to draw a circle already, right?
Press F12 or click the DYN...
