I was interested to see the thread about the countdown clock for the pre-release of SW2011. I am mainly using 2009, but have 2010 loaded on my notebook for when I am forced to use it due to receiving files in the current version. Because I have logged a lot of time on the current version but also still work on 2009, I feel qualified to make comparisons.

This post is in regard to the fact that I finally found something in the interface tweeks that they made for 2010 that I like.

1) I have gotten used to the way `convert entities' works when sketching although I don't care for it. (RMB works OK, but still prefer old way.)

2) I REALLY dislike the interface for sketch fillets because it is extra clicks and hangs the dimensions for every darn fillet over the top of the sketch and covers things up.

3) Trim surface is clunky because it seems to always default back to the previous selections. This is especially obnoxious when your last trim was a mutual trim. I have actually needed to trim something that I really didn't want to trim just to get the selection back to something that I could work with and then go back and delete the previous feature. I don't recall the exact situation when this was necessary but I think it was when I was going back and editing some trims-which has always been dicey anyways

4) In drawings the magic jumping dimensions are a real Pain. I saw a setting to try in a thread about this, but it doesn't seem to help much.

Oh yeah-I was going to mention something I liked.......It's in the sketch-driven patterns. I almost always use the `selected point' option rather than centroid. It is very convenient in this particular case that this feature defaults to the previously used option. In almost all other options that they changed the new way runs counter to the way I have been working for many years.

Whoever had the bright idea to `unify the interface' as I have seen it described did not do us any favors-in my personal opinion. I wonder what 2011 holds in store for us???