June 19, 2013

AutoCAD customization: 5 articles to learn about CUI

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AutoCAD CUI customization roundup. If you want to customize AutoCAD interface, here you can learn how you can create partial customization file, create command, working with ribbon, toolbar and menu, and more cool things!

Exploring AutoCAD CUI: Working with toolbar and menu (part 4)

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In this 4th CUI tutorial, we learn how to create toolbar and menu. We will learn how to place commands, and learn about menu structure. And did you miss our tutorial to create contextual menu in the past?

Exploring AutoCAD CUI: Creating a command in tab (part 2)

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a command, panel, and tab. Then define the appearance in workspace.

Exploring AutoCAD CUI: introduction (1)

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If you want to learn how to customize your AutoCAD interface, you can follow this tutorial series. Let’s start with a short introduction!

Disable shift+mid button as transparent orbit

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Do you often activate transparent orbit in AutoCAD accidentally? If you do, you may want to remove the button assignment. See how you can do it here.

Preventing AutoCAD Ribbon Panels to Collapse

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Do you use AutoCAD ribbon? One annoying thing about AutoCAD ribbon for me is when I have to work with low screen resolution. I do set it quite high on my computer and feel comfortable with it. However, when I have to do presentations, sometimes I have to set my screen resolution to 1024×768 pixels, [...]