There are things to consider, because menu is not as flat as toolbar. You create a new menu below menu category in CUI file and drag your commands there. Especially if you compare it to placing commands in AutoCAD ribbon! Working with menu If you use classic interface, you can access it from menu tools> toolbars> YOUR CUI> YOUR TOOLBAR.Īs I said before, it’s very easy. If you use ribbon interface, go to view tab, windows panel, toolbars> YOUR CUI> YOUR TOOLBAR.

Just in case you don’t see the toolbar, you can load it manually. You don’t have to add toolbar to workspace, even if you were working in ribbon interface. Very similar with ribbon, right?Īfter you finish placing commands, just click OK. Expand your cui and expand toolbar.ĭrag your commands to your custom toolbar. Switch to ‘all customization files’ and expand ‘partial customization file’. Not very catchy name, but at least I know what tools are in it. Right click above toolbar, and choose new toolbar from contextual menu. Our customization file is empty, remember? You should see there is no item below it yet. Try to click the + sign on the left of toolbars category. Now we work on our own customization file. Remember to activate customization file to yours (mine is cad-notes, yours might be different). It has fewer properties than ribbon.įirst, let’s open our CUI dialog box. What if you want to add the commands to toolbar? What if you want to add commands to menu? Let’s see how we can do it here.

But we know that ribbon is not everyone’s favorite.

Notice that the system varibale is a bitcode which means that you can choose multiple options and simply add their values together as their value that you enter…Īlso – After you have set the position of your toolbars and palettes, don’t forget to save your “workspace.In the last tutorial, we learned how to place commands to ribbon. The above interface is a user-friendly way of adjusting the system variable LOCKUI as shown below. “Docked” means when you drag a palette/toolbar near the edge of the screen and they snap to the under side of the ribbon or to the side of the screen. You can either left or right click on this lock icon and the options shown above will appear.

Notice that in the bottom right of the screen in the above picture, there is a little lock with a red square around it (shown below as well): Below is an extreme example with every toolbar placed on the screen and 2 palettes are open as well. Once you get your toolbars and palettes in place, you’ll want them to stay put right? Here is a way to lock there position.

How to load toolbar autocad 2016