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Figure 10 – Creating a new drop down menu
Figure 9: Multiple command groups in one menu
Advanced customization What about completely custom interfaces? Here’s how we do that with the Enhanced UI menu system. The following is the high-level overview of the process. We’ll then unpack each step in more detail. If you haven’t read the section on Basic default customization, please do so before continuing. Before starting this phase of creating your new UI, you should have saved your new UI state. That process is explained in the previous section. 1) Create a main drop-down menu (like “My Tools”). 2) Create a tools category menu into which you will place your tools (a submenu such as “Modeling Tools” or “Animation Tools”). Drop-downs can have more than one subcategory. 3) Add commands to various submenus.
Figure 11: Location of new menu
4) Clean up the UI by creating custom names, adding separators, or creating custom icons.
Steps for Creating a Drop-Down Menu: 1) Create a New Menu and give it a name (see Figure 10).
First let’s create a new menu for the menu bar. This is done easily from the Customize>Customize [Rollout]>Customize User Interface dialog box.
2) Locate your new menu in the Menus window. It will be listed alphabetically (Figure 11).
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