Unauthorized copying or publication of any part of the content presented herein is strictly forbidden without explicit consent of the author. It's the overall look and feel of a software package. The navigation of a software package is very important and must be thought of as part of the User Interface Design from the very beginning of the software development stage. Too often, this issue is left to chance later on when it may be too late or too costly to make changes.
Today there are more intelligent methods for putting a software package together.
With all the visualization tools which come in shrink wrapped packages, it should not be as big of an issue as it once was. AutoCAD2000 is not without it's tools as well. There are many features built in to AutoCAD2000 that allow a programmer to customize the product in many ways. As a matter of fact, it is these very features that have spawned such a large industry of the third party tools available for AutoCAD, and Autodesk products. What's more, if you are not a programmer, customization is not too difficult if a few minor tweaks are what you're after.