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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
■ Insert base point
■ Pause for user input
■ Play back an action macro
Start Recording an Action Macro
You start recording actions in the Action Recorder panel. To display the Action
Recorder panel and start recording, follow these steps:
1 On the ribbon, click the Manage tab.
2 On the Action Recorder panel, click Record.
Record commands and input values to create and modify a new layer
Once the Action Recorder starts recording, you use the Layer Properties
Manager to create a new layer. Follow these steps:
1 At the Command prompt, enter -layer and press Enter.
2 At the prompt, Enter an option
[?/Make/Set/New/Rename/ON/OFF/Color/Ltype/LWeight/TRansparency/MATerial/Plot/Freeze/Thaw/LOck/Unlock/stAte/Description/rEconcile],
enter m and press Enter.
3 At the prompt, Enter name for new layer (becomes the current layer) <0>,
enter Bolt and press Enter.
4 At the prompt, Enter an option
[?/Make/Set/New/Rename/ON/OFF/Color/Ltype/LWeight/TRansparency/MATerial/Plot/Freeze/Thaw/LOck/Unlock/stAte/Description/rEconcile],
enter c and press Enter.
5 At the prompt, New color [Truecolor/COlorbook], enter 1 and press Enter.
6 At the prompt, Enter name list of layer(s) for color 1 (red) <Bolt>, press
Enter to assign the color Red to the Bolt layer.
If the Action Macro - Value Not Recorded dialog box is displayed, click
the Use the Value that is Current at Playback link. This will assign the
color specified to the to the recent layer that was created with the Make
option.
7 Press Enter again to exit the -LAYER command.
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