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Teaches you how to modify AutoCAD to better fit the way you work.
In this workshop, expert and author Scott Onstott teaches you how to modify AutoCAD to better fit the way you work. He begins by showing you how to create a complex dynamic block that uses multiple visibility states, parameters, and actions so that one dynamic block can do the job of many static blocks. Then learn how to configure physical output devices, edit command aliases, and create custom panels and linetypes. Finally, discover how to automate repetitive tasks with action macros, scripts, and Lisp routines to craft tools for increased productivity.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Overview
- Accessing the project files
- Drawing block geometry
- Defining a block and creating visibility states
- Adding a flip parameter and flip action
- Adding flip and rotate parameters and actions
- Adding multiple parameters and actions
- Installing system printers
- Configuring AutoCAD plot drivers
- Configuring plot style tables
- Creating a new ribbon tab and displaying it in a workspace
- Creating a custom ribbon panel
- Storing blocks on tool palettes
- Altering command aliases
- Loading linetypes and using them in a drawing
- Creating a custom shape
- Creating and using a custom linetype
- Writing and running scripts
- Recording a sequence of actions
- Playing back a macro and adjusting its properties
- Loading and running Lisp routines