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Chapter 2 Getting Started with AutoCAD Land Development Desktop
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To select a menu palette (
continued
)
Steps
Use
to look up
2
Choose a menu palette to load.
3
Under Description, the names of the pull-
down menus in that selected menu palette
are displayed.
4
After you have selected the menu palette,
click Load.
A quicker way to load a menu palette is to use a macro. For more
information about menu palette macros, look up “AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop Macros” in the online Help.
For more information, use to look up “Overview of Menu Palettes”
in the online Help.
Customizing a Menu Palette
To customize a menu palette, you can add other menus to an
existing menu palette, or you can create a new menu palette. For
example, if you own Autodesk Civil Design, then you could add the
Autodesk Civil Design Grading menu to the AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop menu palette so that you always have access
to the Grading commands.
To create a menu palette, load the menus that you want to save to the
menu palette by using the MENULOAD command, and then use the
Menu Palette Manager to save the palette.
NOTE In AutoCAD Land Development Desktop Release 2, toolbars cannot
be saved as part of menu palettes.
Create a Custom Menu Bar
You can customize the menu bar and create your own menu palettes
to contain commands that you use often. For example, you can set up
an Annotation menu palette that contains the AutoCAD Dimension
menu and the AutoCAD Draw menu. If you create a new menu
palette, then you can name and save it so that you can recall it and
use it at any time.