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By Ellen Finkelstein In this tutorial, I’ll explain the steps for creating a new toolbar using the Customize User Interface dialog box. This dialog box is new for 2006 and the method of customizing toolbars, menus, etc. is very different from previous releases.
Choose Tools>Customize>Interface, or type cui on the command line. Click the drop-down list at the […]
By Ellen Finkelstein
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If you have custom menus that you have been using for inserting blocks, you know that creating and maintaining these menus is a major project.
If you have a digitizing tablet, you may be using the Tablet 1 section of the tablet menu. If you change a block, you […]
By Ellen Finkelstein
AutoCAD 2005 changed the COPY command so that it defaults to a multiple option, continuing to prompt you for more locations for your selected objects. On the other hand, the FILLET and CHAMFER commands now have a multiple option, but it isn’t the default. Would you like to change the COPY command back to […]
By Ellen Finkelstein
As you probably know, you can add commands to a tool palette. Before AutoCAD 2007, you could only do this by choosing Tools > Customize > Tool Palettes to open the Customize dialog box. Then you could drag commands from toolbar buttons.
Now, you can also drag commands from the Customize User Interface dialog […]
By Ellen Finkelstein In 3D drawings, you’ve had some display options for years: wireframe, hidden, and various types of shading. These were the SHADE or SHADEMODE options on the View menu. AutoCAD 2007 introduced a new concept: visual styles. The main difference is that you can customize them to create your own visual style.
AutoCAD comes with several […]
By Ellen Finkelstein Keyboard shortcuts can make your work go much faster. You can use the default keyboard shortcuts and create your own.
Here are the defaults that come with AutoCAD:
F1: Displays Help
F2: Toggles the Text Window
F3: Toggles OSNAP
F4: Toggles Tablet mode
F5: Toggles ISOPLANE
F6: Toggles Dynamic UCS
F7: Toggles GRID mode
F8: […]
By Ellen Finkelstein When you start the MTEXT command, by default, you see the letters “abc” at the cursor to give you an idea of the size that the text will be. But those letters aren’t very helpful; it would be nice if you had more letters and more variety of sizes.
The MTJIGSTRING system variable (since AutoCAD […]
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