AutoCAD Customization for CAD Managers

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About this Course

Every company customizes Autodesk software at some level—especially AutoCAD. By standardizing the customizations, you can ensure that all your designers are using the same workspace and working in the most efficient way possible.

Expert shows CAD managers how to customize the AutoCAD interface, preferences, templates, tool palettes, and symbol libraries to maximize your team's productivity, also covers scripting and working with external files, such as line type definitions and hatch patterns.

Make sure to check out the "LISP for CAD Managers" chapter where expert introduces simple LISP programming routines to automate some of the most common AutoCAD tasks.

 

Topics include:

  • Using variables and profiles
  • Customizing AutoCAD templates with styles and layer properties
  • Using dynamic blocks
  • Customizing the AutoCAD interface
  • Creating custom tool palettes
  • Creating and editing scripts
  • Adding custom symbols
  • CAD programming with LISP

 

Contents

 

Introduction
Welcome

What to know

Exercise files

 

1. Customizing Options
Customizing options

Support paths

Display

Open and Save

System, User Preferences, Drafting, Selection, and 3D Modeling options

Using variables

Using profiles

 

2. Drawing Templates
Drawing template overview

Annotative styles and controls

Text styles

Dimension styles

Multileader styles

Table styles

Layer properties and states

Plot styles and page setups

Creating a template

 

3. Dynamic Blocks
Block overview

Parameters

Actions

Visibility states

Properties and tables

 

4. Customizing User Interface
Custom user interface overview

Workspaces

Add or modify commands

Custom Ribbon tools

Enterprise CUI

 

5. Tool Palettes
Palette tools overview

Palette tools

Palette groups

Company palettes

 

6. Scripts
Create and edit scripts

Action Recorder

 

7. Custom Symbols
Simple linetypes

Custom linetypes

Custom hatch patterns

 

8. LISP for CAD Managers
LISP overview

Simple LISP routine

Visual LISP

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