AutoCAD Learning: Making Your Own Toolbar

AutoCAD 2007

Making Your Own Toolbar

This is important for certain AutoCAD user to make their own personal toolbar which is to ease them to select their usual and mainly used command in AutoCAD. The advantage is at the AutoCAD Interface we will have no crowded toolbar that we don't need.

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1. First click the view from menu bar (Figure 1), then select the toolbar (Figure 2)

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2. Then you will see the Customize User Interface window. There you can see the Customize and Transfer tab. Go to the Customize tab.

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3. Right click on the Toolbar, choose New and click Toolbar (Figure 4)

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4. After you select new toolbar, Toolbar1 will show up (Figure 5) and rename it for example My Toolbar (Figure 6)

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5. Next you can choose all or some of the command that mainly you use for your design. At the bottom you can see the categories of command that you can choose from file, edit, view, dimension, modify and others (Figure 7).

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6. In making your own toolbar for example, choose the draw categories (Figure 8).

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7. Choose the command you prefer, click and drag it to My Toolbar (Figure 9).

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8. In figure 10 you can see your line command is inside My Toolbar already. Drag other command that you want to use into My Toolbar. After that click Apply and Ok (Figure 10) to finish your toolbar making.

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