TABLE OF CONTENTS Different methods for customizing AutoCAD LT
Programming available in LT
Customizing LT's startup
When AutoCAD first came out in the early 1980s, one of its strengths was its ability to be customized. While program customization is taken for granted today, 20 years ago it was a radical departure from the norm. Back then, software simply was not customized other than perhaps changing the color of the screen. If you wanted something "custom," you programmed it yourself or paid someone a lot of money to do it.
AutoCAD LT can be customized in a number of areas, although not as extensively as AutoCAD, as described in this and following chapters.
Customize modifies the way that AutoCAD LT acts and looks
Startup switches specify actions LT performs upon starting
| Abbreviations | |
|---|---|
| CHM | Compiled HTML help file |
| CNT | Contents file |
| DIESEL | Direct Interpretively Evaluated String Expression Language |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| LISP | List Processing |
| VBA | Visual Basic for Applications |
You can add startup switches to AutoCAD LT. Startup switches cause LT to perform an action, such as to not display a specified view name or to run a script file.
Startup switches are added to the LT icon's Properties dialog box, found on the Windows desktop. It can have multiple startup switches. And the Windows desktop can have multiple LT icons, each for a different customized configuration.
You add command-line switches as follows:
Right-click the AutoCAD LT...
