Customizing AutoCAD® 2009

This edition of Customizing AutoCAD 2009 has been updated in order to provide complete coverage of the expanded design capabilities of the AutoCAD 2009 release. Providing detailed explanations of customization techniques for advanced users of the software, this all-in-one comprehensive volume thoroughly examines all of the various levels of customization and AutoCAD, and covers the basic topics of creating template drawings and customizing menus to advanced topics such as modifying AutoCAD environments in ways that help industry professionals meet the needs of their organizations. The book also features live projects that provide examples that enhance the explanations, and enable users to more easily understand and master the customizing concepts of AutoCAD 2009.

Features:

• Step-by-step explorations of the AutoCAD 2009 software to encourage users to interact with the Internet more effectively in order to reinforce concepts and techniques presented throughout the text.
• An easy to read and understand format that clearly explains all of the commands anyway that makes topics interesting to learn for users that do not have a background in programming.
• Advanced techniques to help construction professionals create presentations.
• Sample review questions, exercises, self-evaluations and projects that will provide users with feedback and tools necessary to ensure mastery of the concepts presented throughout the text.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Template Drawings
• Chapter 2: Script Files and Slide Shows
• Chapter 3: Creating Linetypes and Hatch Patterns
• Chapter 4: Customizing the ACAD.PGP File
• Chapter 5: Customizing Menus and Toolbars
• Chapter 6: Customizing DASHBOARD and Workspaces
• Chapter 7: Image Tile Menus
• Chapter 8: Button Menus
  
• Chapter 9: Tablet Menus
• Chapter 10: Customizing Screen Menus
• Chapter 11: Shapes and Text Fonts
• Chapter 12: Working with AutoLISP
• Chapter 13: Working with Visual LISP
• Chapter 14: Visual LISP: Editing the Drawing Database
• Chapter 15: Programmable Dialog Boxes Using the Dialog Control Language
• Chapter 16: DIESEL: A String Expression Language
• Chapter 17: Visual Basic for Application
• Chapter 18: Accessing External Database
• Chapter 19: Geometry Calculator
• Index