Download PDF AutoCAD® Platform Customization User Interface and Beyond by Lee Ambrosius

Sinopsis

Welcome to AutoCAD Platform Customization! Have you ever thought about customizing the Autodesk® AutoCAD® program only to think it is not for you because you’re not a programmer? If so, you are not alone—many people connect customization with programming. However, customization is not the same as programming, although programming can be considered a form of customization.

While using one of the supported programming languages can be useful in implementing custom workfl ows and new commands, simpler ways exist to increase your drafting efficiency in a shorter period of time. AutoCAD supports a wide range of customization features that you can learn and begin to leverage in minutes, which can lead to improved CAD standards and a decrease in the amount of time it takes to complete a task.

I, like many others—even you, most likely—have customized AutoCAD without even realizing it. Have you ever created a new layer, text style, or block? Chances are pretty good that you have created one or more of those items before. You might have even stored those items in a drawing template (DWT) fi le so they would be available each time a new drawing was created. While you might not have thought about these as forms of customization, they are indeed a few of the basic drawing customization features that can be used to enhance the out-of-the-box AutoCAD experience.

Drawing customization affects the appearance of and settings in a drawing fi le or drawing template file, and should form the cornerstone of your company’s CAD standards. Often when people think of customization, they think of application customization, which includes the support fi les that AutoCAD uses, as well as the tools in the application’s user interface. Application customization is not dependent on which drawing is currently open, but on which user profi le or workspace is current.

Content

1. Establishing the Foundation for Drawing Standards
2. Working with Nongraphical Objects
3. Building the Real World One Block at a Time
4. Manipulating the Drawing Environment
5. Customizing the AutoCAD User Interface for Windows
6. Customizing the AutoCAD User Interface for Mac
7. Creating Tools and Tool Palettes
8. Automating Repetitive Tasks
9. Defining Shapes, Linetypes, and Hatch Patterns
10. Using, Loading, and Managing Custom Files

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