Mastering AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005

If You Want to Experiment

In this chapter, you learned that you can create your own toolbars and your own menu. Try adding a custom toolbar to the menu you created in the "Adding Your Own Pull-Down Menu" section:

1. If you haven't done so already, load the Mymenu.mnu file into the AutoCAD menu bar.

2. Right-click a button in any toolbar and then choose Customize from the shortcut menu to open the Customize dialog box.

3. Select Mymenu from the Menu Group drop-down list.

   Because you don't have toolbars coded into your menu file, the Toolbars list box is empty. The next step is to add a toolbar to your custom menu.

4. Click the New button to open the New Toolbar dialog box.

5. Enter My Toolbar in the Toolbar Name input box and then click OK. A small, blank toolbar appears in the AutoCAD window.

6. Select the Command tab in the Customize dialog box. Notice that the Categories list contains the main categories of commands as they appear in the menu bar.

7. Choose Draw from the list. The Command list box to the right displays all the commands available for the Draw category.

8. Go to the top of the Command list; then click and drag the Line tool from the Command list into the new toolbar you just created. The Line tool now appears in your toolbar.

9. Click and drag the Arc Start End Direction tool from the Commands list of the Customize dialog box to your new toolbar.

10. Exit the Customize Toolbars dialog box.

AutoCAD saves your addition in a file called Mymenu.mns . This file contains all the code you wrote when you created the Mymenu.mnu file, plus the code needed for the toolbar you added in this exercise.