TABLE OF CONTENTS AutoCAD offers a high degree of flexibility and customization, enabling you to tailor the software's look and feel to your requirements. In this chapter, you'll see how to customize AutoCAD so that it integrates more smoothly into your workgroup and office environment.
The first part of the chapter shows how to adapt AutoCAD to fit your particular needs. You'll learn how to customize AutoCAD by modifying its menus, and you'll learn how to create custom macros for commands that your workgroup uses frequently.
You'll then look at some general issues that arise when you use AutoCAD in an office. In this discussion, you may find help with problems you've encountered when using AutoCAD in your particular work environment. I'll also discuss how to manage AutoCAD projects.
Topics in this chapter include the following:
Using Workspaces
Customizing the User Interface
Creating Macros in Tools and Menus
Pausing for User Input
Opening an Expanded Text Box for the Macro Option
Editing Keyboard Shortcuts
Saving, Loading, and Unloading Your Customizations
Understanding the Diesel Macro Language
Creating Custom Linetypes
Creating Hatch Patterns
Once you're comfortable with AutoCAD, you may find that you like a certain arrangement of toolbars and palettes or that you have several sets of toolbars that you like to use depending on your type of work. You've already worked with the two workspaces AutoCAD offers out of the box: 3D Modeling and AutoCAD Classic. You can also set up your own custom toolbar arrangements and then save those...
