Best-selling book updated for AutoCAD 2008!
The 88-page e-book is contains tutorials for learning AutoCAD’s new user interface customization system. Covers recently released AutoCAD 2008!
Learn AutoCAD CUI
Tailoring AutoCAD CUI for AutoCAD 2008. Tailoring AutoCAD CUI is a brand new “mini” e-books for the recent 2008 release.
• Guided tour of 2008’s CUI.
• CUI Commands & Sys Vars
• Covers toolbars & menus
• Learn about icon editor
• Customization Tutorials.
• Dozens of tips!
As with all of our e-books:
• All illustrations in full color.
• Formatted for printing on standard 8.5×11 paper.
• Margins designed for three-hole punching.
table of contents:
Tailoring AutoCAD 2008 CUI
chapter 1— introduction to cui
About CUI, Summary of AutoCAD 2008’s Changes to CUI About CUI Files Collection of CUI Commands Related System Variables
chapter 2 — touring the cui user interface
Customizations Pane,Toolbar Customization, Droplist Summary of the QuickCui Command, Subsets of Customization Files Toolbar, Tree Summary of the Acad.Cui ,Tree Command List, Pane Droplist, Toolbar Shortcut Menu, Search Command List, Summary of the Problem of Command Descriptions, Missing Commands, Tactics for Finding Commands, Tooltip Find and Replac, e Properties Pane, Transfer Tab, Summary of How to Play Around with Customization
chapter 3 — customizing toolbars
Customizing Toolbars, Stage 1: Create New Toolbar, Stage 2: Add Buttons to Toolbars, Summary of Toolbar Properties, Summary of Toolbar Button Properties, Creating Flyouts, Stage 3: Writing Toolbar Macros, Summary of Flyout Properties, Basic Macros, Summary of Toolbar Metacharacters, Including Options, Macros with Multiple Options, Options by Themselves, Spaces = Enter, Adding New Commands, Using System Variables, Including Hidden Options, Advanced Macros, Adding Separator Lines, Stage 4: Edit Icons, Leave Icon As-is, Borrow Icons from Other Commands, Import Images as Icons, Create Custom Icons, Stage 5: Testing and Debugging, Testing Toolbar Buttons, Testing Toolbar Flyouts,
chapter 4 — menus & shortcut menus
Customizing Menus, Stage 1: Create Menus, Stage 2: Add Commands to Menus, Summary of , enu Properties, Summary of Menu Item Properties, Summary of Metacharacters in Menu , Macros Stage 3: Write Macros Basic Menu Macros Including Options Metacharacters - ^ and $ Including Coordinates and User Input - \ Providing Input to Users: ^H Submenus Separator Lines: — Shortcuts - & Shortcut Keystrokes - \t Grayed-out Text - ~ Check Mark Toggles - !. , Stage 4: Edit Icons, Stage 5: Test and Debug, Shortcut Menus
chapter 5 — dashboard panels
Customizing Dashboard Panels, Stage 1: Create Shell of New Panel, Summary of Dashboard Elements
Stage 2: Identify the Panel, Stage 3: Add Buttons and Controls, Stage 4: Edit Properties and Write, Macros Stage 5: Edit Icons Stage 6: Test and Debug., Further Dashboard Customization
Assign a Tool Palette Group, Other Shortcut Options
chapter 6 — shortcut keys & overrides
Customizing Shortcut Keystrokes, Stage 1: Drag Commands, Stage 2: Edit Properties, Stage 3: Test and Debug., Temporary Override Keys
chapter 7 — mouse buttons
Customizing Mouse Buttons, Stage 1: Add Buttons, Stage 2: Modify Properties, Stage 3: Test and Debug
chapter 8 — lisp files
Customizing LISP Files, Stage 1: Select .lsp Files, Stage 2: You’re Done!
chapter 9 — workspaces
Creating New Workspaces, Stage 1: Name the New Workspace, Stage 2: Make Changes, Summary of Workspace Properties, Stage 3: Save and Test
chapter 10 — legacy customization
About the author:
Ralph Grabowski has authored and coauthored 80+ books on CAD management, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Generic CADD, IntelliCAD, MicroStation, TurboCAD, VDraft, Visio, HTML, and VRML. He is the editor of two e-newsletters, upFront.eZine and IMAGINiT.eZine, and maintains a Weblog.
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