Chapter 28: Customizing Toolbars, Menus, Linetypes, and Hatch Patterns

AutoCAD offers a high degree of flexibility and customization, enabling you to tailor the software’s look and feel to your requirements. In this chapter, you’ll see how to customize AutoCAD so that it integrates more smoothly into your workgroup and office environment.

The first part of the chapter shows how to adapt AutoCAD to fit your particular needs. You’ll learn how to customize AutoCAD by modifying its menus, and you’ll learn how to create custom macros for commands that your workgroup uses frequently.

You’ll then look at some general issues that arise when you use AutoCAD in an office. In this discussion, you may find help with problems you’ve encountered when using ...

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