Do you like AutoCAD Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)? You can place frequently used commands there. You can access the commands regardless which ribbon tab you open. Or even when you use Clean Screen interface. If you don’t know what is clean screen interface, press ctrl+0 to enable/disable it.
We used to be able to place a style drop-down list in QAT. But you can’t place them there since AutoCAD 2015.
Actually, you still can place the drop-down list there. Let’s see how to do it.
The reason why you can’t place it to Quick Access Toolbar is because now AutoCAD has Ribbon Galleries. Instead of showing a simple list, now the drop-down will show thumbnails.
Because they look very large, it will take too much space on QAT.
When you right click above the drop-down list, you won’t see Add to Quick Access Toolbar in the context menu.
But if you prefer to have them in QAT than using Ribbon Galleries, you can place them to QAT. You can add it after you disable Ribbon Galleries.
You can disable the gallery view by changing GALLERYVIEW system variable to 0. Just type GALLERYVIEW, press enter, type 0 then press enter again.
After you disable the Ribbon Galleries, now the menu is available.
Now you can access Dimension Styles list from QAT even if you use clean screen!
GALLERYVIEW system variable won’t affect text style drop-down list. Read this knowledge base about Text Style gallery. So you can’t add it to QAT.
THANK YOU! I’ve just spent two hours trying to figure out why the dimstyle pulldown wouldn’t show up in the QAT. Now, it does!
Question:
Is there way to attach a Xref2 to a Xref1 in a parent drawing?
So when the parent drawing references Xref1 the parent drawing knows to attach Xref2 to Xref1 and insert into parent drawing.
Typically when I get an apartment complex from an architect they form the floors of the apartment by Xrefing drawings that are a single apartment unit. When they have inserted all the unit types and orient them in the right way they form a floor. What I would like to do is make my engineering drawing and attach (xref) that to their unit drawing as it comes into the parent drawing.
I have xrefed my engineering drawing into their unit drawing and it works fine when the parent drawing references their unit drawing.
The problem is the architect updates their unit drawing often, which copies over their previous drawing and erases the referenced drawing I assigned to that unit drawing. I have to start all over.
The reason I would like to reference my drawing as noted above is because the architect reuses the same unit many times on the same floor but with different orientations.
Can you help?
Thank you,
Bill
I’m not sure if I completely understand what you want to achieve, but I think you want to use nested reference. Have you looked to this attachment vs overlay in AutoCAD XREF?