Michael I highly encourage you to join the discussions in the MicroStation EAP and make your concerns known (or to add your thoughts about concerns that others have already mentioned). There is still a lot of work going into that and the more opinions and ideas you can provide, the better. We're still pretty far off from an EAP for ABD and there is a lot that is in the experimental stage so I won't go into too much detail, but let me just say that we're working on consolidation of tools and unification of workflows first (reducing the total number of commands in ABD and making them act more alike) and then making those revised versions of the tools more context-sensitive. There are a lot of long-standing requests that we're going to address along the way. This card-sorting exercise is just the first stage and it's shown us a few surprises that we're working into the design concepts now. Once we have a build with the new ABD tools partially functioning, I'll be posting here requesting volunteers for usability labs to test out the new concepts and provide feedback on them when they are still in their earliest and most malleable forms. -Tom
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