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Figure 3: More commands to drag
Figure 4: Right-click to add commands
next to your workspace. Continuing on with the same method, we will now add the text command to the bar as shown. We have just added two separate commands to our current QAT.
CREATING CUSTOM QUICK ACCESS TOOLBARS Now that we have covered the basics we are going to create several QATs and link those to different workspaces. In the previous exercise we added tools to the current QAT, which in many cases is named Quick Access Toolbar 1 and is linked to all default workspaces in AutoCAD. Let’s copy that QAT and rename it, then create a new workspace and attach that new QAT to the new workspace. On the Manage Tab – Customization panel on the ribbon, choose user interface to display the Customize User Interface editor (see Figure 5). In the Customization pane we are going to pull Out our Quick Access Toolbars section and right-click and select Copy (1). Then we will Select the Quick Access Toolbars heading and select Paste (2). Right-click your copied QAT (named Quick Access Toolbar 2 by default) and rename to AUGIWorld as shown in Figure 6. We have now created our own QAT, which we can connect to a workspace. We are next going to attach our new QAT to our workspace (Figure 7). On the Manage tab go to the CUI Editor or type CUI at the command prompt. Make sure your AUGIWorld workspace is current; select that and drag over to the Customize Workspace pane right under your Quick Access Toolbar 1 (will be shown) and notice it will change to AUGIWorld. Close the CUI editor and now your customized QAT is current with your workspace. September 2016
USING THE CUI TO ADD A NEW COMMAND TO THE QAT Now that we have our QAT connected to our Workspace we are going to change a command then add a new custom command. Open up the CUI and pull out the AUGIWorld QAT as shown in Figure 8. The section shown with the vertical red arrow is the order of the commands that are in your QAT. This is where you can drag the commands around to what you are comfortable with. We will explore this further with the layer combo control box. Touch the layer combo control box and notice how the Properties pane appears to the right. Many people ask,“Now that I have that up there, how do I increase the width so I can see the entire layer name?” The default value is 208 as shown in Figure 8. Change that value to 300 and watch your layer combo box change within the QAT (this number will react differently depending on your monitor). This affects only the QAT attached to your current workspace and not the general combo box on your ribbon. A very cool trick! Next up we are going to create a custom command and add it to the QAT. Go back and open the CUI as we have done before and pull out the AUGIWorld QAT. Move down to the bottom left pane to the command list area and select the star (create a new command) as shown in Figure 9. This will launch the editor to create a new command.
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