Customize User Interface was first introduce in AutoCAD 2006 and is now improved in the new AutoCAD 2007 release.
The Customize User Interface also called CUI for short, is a powerful dialog box that allows you to easily create and modify a user’s display components. These include your menus, toolbars, and mouse buttons.
Before AutoCAD 2006 arrived a text editor would have been used to customize these interfaces. Using this new graphical interface makes an AutoCAD managers job that much easier. Customizing and creating menus and toolbars has never been quicker.
The CUI also allows you to Migrate & Convert your old menu (MNU) files to the new XML-based format. Simply drag and drop the user interface components from one CUI file to another.
The CUI displays a hierarchical tree to view and allows the Cad Manager to edit the components of your user interface.
You can also drag AutoCAD commands from your command list into various user interface components. Simply create the command then you drag to any toolbar or menu you want.
For larger offices CUI provides CAD Managers with a Workspaces dialog. Save various configurations of your user interface as named Workspaces. This creates one central CUI file that users can access though a network.
In AutoCAD 2007 a new Double Click Actions node has been added to the CUI enabling you to customize the double-click behavior of objects. For example, by default, if you double-click on a line object, AutoCAD opens the Line Properties window.
For more info about the Custom User Interface see the see Tailoring AutoCAD CUI, a new Ebook that walks you through how to use the CUI.
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