2012
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
User-Defined Icons These files are typically referenced by commands stored
in a CUI or CUIx file, and stored in the folder defined under the Custom Icon
Location node on the Files tab of the Options dialog box.
NOTE User Profiles must be selected for migration in order to migrate user-defined
icons.
User-Defined Tool Palette Files/Tool Palette Files These files contain a set
of user-defined and standard tools that shipped with AutoCAD.
NOTE User Profiles must be selected for migration in order to migrate tool palettes.
■ User-defined Tool Palette Files. Custom tool palette files that were created
in AutoCAD 2009 and earlier can be migrated. However, tool palettes that
are supplied with AutoCAD 2009 and earlier are not migrated.
If custom tools were added to a tool palette that shipped with AutoCAD
2009 or earlier, the tools are not migrated and need to be added back to
the tool palettes that shipped with AutoCAD 2012.
■ Tool Palette Files. Tool palettes created or edited with AutoCAD 2010 or
later can be migrated to AutoCAD 2012.
NOTE It is not recommended to copy tool palette (ATC) files between releases.
Copying tool palette files from one release to another can potentially cause
problems when migrating to a future release.
When migrating tool palettes, custom tool palette groups are merged with
the default tool palette groups that come with AutoCAD.
Tool palette groups are stored in user profiles. You can see the default tool
palette groups that ship with AutoCAD by switching to the <<AutoCAD 2012
Unnamed Profile>>.
NOTE Tool palette groups created with AutoCAD 2008 or later are migrated, but
references to shipped AutoCAD tool palettes from an earlier release might be lost.
AutoCAD-Defined Line Files
The user-defined linetypes from these LIN files are added to a user-defined
section of the file with the same name in the new release.
User-Defined Line Files
These LIN files are copied from the previous release to the new release.
AutoCAD-Defined Hatch Patterns
The user-defined hatch patterns from these PAT files are added to a user-defined
section of the file with the same name in the new release.
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