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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Basic Customization
- Overview of Customization
- Organize Program and Support Files
- Customize a Publish to Web Template
- Define Custom Commands
- Record and Modify Action Macros
- Custom Linetypes
- Custom Hatch Patterns
- User Interface Customization
- Understand User Interface Customization
- Work with the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor
- Create and Manage Customization Files
- Customize Commands
- Overview of Commands
- Create, Edit, and Reuse Commands
- Create Macros
- Overview of Macros
- Use Special Control Characters in Macros
- Pause for User Input in Macros
- Provide International Support in Macros
- Use Built-in Commands in Macros
- Repeat Commands in Macros
- Use Single Object Selection Mode in Macros
- Use Macros to Swap User Interface Elements
- Use Conditional Expressions in Macros
- Use AutoLISP in Macros
- Control the Display of Command Items
- Assign Search Tags
- Create Tooltips and Extended Help for Commands
- Create Status Line Help Messages
- Create and Manage Images for Commands
- Customize User Interface Elements
- Load an AutoLISP File
- Customize Workspaces
- Transfer and Migrate Customization
- Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor FAQs
- DIESEL
- Slides and Command Scripts
- Introduction to Programming Interfaces
- Shapes and Shape Fonts
- Overview of Shape Files
- Create Shape Definition Files
- Shape Descriptions
- Vector Length and Direction Code
- Special Codes
- Use Special Codes
- Codes 0, 1, and 2: End of Shape and Draw Mode Control
- Codes 3 and 4: Size Control
- Codes 5 and 6: Location Save/Restore
- Code 7: Subshape
- Codes 8 and 9: X-Y Displacements
- Code 00A: Octant Arc
- Code 00B: Fractional Arc
- Codes 00C and 00D: Bulge-Specified Arcs
- Code 00E: Flag Vertical Text Command
- Text Font Descriptions
- Sample Files
- Big Font Descriptions
- Unicode Font Descriptions
- Superscripts and Subscripts in SHX Files
- Migrate and Transfer Custom Settings and Files
- Index
Quick Reference
Commands
CUI
Manages the customized user interface elements in the product.
Customize Commands
Commands in the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor are used to define
custom macros which are used to start standard and custom commands which
can be executed from the command prompt in AutoCAD.
Overview of Commands
You can easily create, edit, and reuse commands. The Customize tab of the
Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor allows you to add any command listed
in the Command List pane to a toolbar, menu, and one of the other user
interface element that can be customized.
When you change the properties of a command in the Command List pane
or the tree view in the Customizations In pane, the properties of the command
are changed everywhere the command is referenced. Each property of a
command in the Command List pane controls which actions are taken when
the command is used and how the command looks when added to a user
interface element.
The following table shows the properties of the Scale command as they appear
in the Properties pane.
Properties for the Scale command in the Command List pane
ExampleDescriptionProperties
pane item
ScaleString displayed as a menu name or as a tooltip
when you click a toolbar button. The string
Name
must include alphanumeric characters with no
punctuation other than a hyphen (-) or an un-
derscore (_).
Enlarges or reduces
selected objects, keep-
String displayed as a tooltip when the cursor
hovers over a toolbar or panel button, or menu
item.
Descrip-
tion
ing the proportions of
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