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Hatch Patterns with Multiple Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Chapter 4 User Interface Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 iv | Contents Understand User Interface Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Overview of the Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Use the Customization Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Overview of the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Work with the Customizations In Pane . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Work with the Command List Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Work with the Dynamic Display Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 How Customization Has Changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Customization Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Work with the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor . . . . . . . . . . 58 Create a Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Create User Interface Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Create a Quick Access Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Customize the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Create a Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Create a Pull-Down Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Create a Shortcut Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Customize Shortcut Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Create a Double Click Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Create a Mouse Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Create and Modify Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Create a Workspace from the User Interface . . . . . . . . . 70 Create a Workspace with the CUI Editor . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Create and Manage Customization Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Basics of Customization Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Create and Load a Partial CUIx File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Create an Enterprise CUIx File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Find and Replace Commands and Text in a CUIx File . . . . . . . 86 Customize Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Overview of Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Create, Edit, and Reuse Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Create Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Overview of Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Use Special Control Characters in Macros . . . . . . . . . . 104 Pause for User Input in Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Provide International Support in Macros . . . . . . . . . . 108 Repeat Commands in Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Use Single Object Selection Mode in Macros . . . . . . . . 110 Use Macros to Swap User Interface Elements . . . . . . . . 110 Use Conditional Expressions in Macros . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Control the Display of Command Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Assign Search Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Create Tooltips and Extended Help for Commands . . . . . . . . 122 Create Status Line Help Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Assign, Create, and Manage Images for Commands . . . . . . . 129 Assign Images to a Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Create and Edit Custom Images for Commands . . . . . . 132 Manage, Import, and Export Custom Images . . . . . . . . 134 Customize User Interface Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Quick Access Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Ribbon Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Ribbon Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Ribbon Contextual Tab States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Create and Edit Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Add Flyouts to a Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Add, Remove or Switch Toolbar Controls . . . . . . . . . . 207 Pull-down and Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Overview of Pull-Down and Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . 212 Create a Pull-Down Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Create a Shortcut Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Create Submenus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Reference Pull-Down or Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . 229 Swap and Insert Pull-Down Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Quick Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Rollover Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Shortcut Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Temporary Override Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Double Click Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Overview of Double Click Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Double Click Action Object Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Examples of Double Click Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Mouse Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Overview of Mouse Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Accept Coordinate Entry in Button Menus . . . . . . . . . 271 Legacy Interface Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Create Tablet Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Customize Tablet Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Create Image Tile Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Customize Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Overview of Workspace Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Control User Interface Elements Outside the CUI Editor . . . . . 293 Control User Interface Elements in the CUI Editor . . . . . . . . 296 Control the Appearance of Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Transfer and Migrate Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor FAQs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Contents | v
Page 1 and 2: AutoCAD LT 2011 Customization Guide
Page 3: Contents Chapter 1 Basic Customizat
Page 7 and 8: Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Page 9 and 10: Basic Customization Your dealer can
Page 11 and 12: Quick Reference Commands CUI Manage
Page 13 and 14: Command Search Procedure When you e
Page 15 and 16: See also: ■ “Customize Startup
Page 17 and 18: If roaming profiles are allowed on
Page 19 and 20: 2 Click application menu ➤ Option
Page 21 and 22: To find the default location of the
Page 23 and 24: ■ Text ■ Hyperlinks ■ Color
Page 25 and 26: The template file contains comments
Page 27 and 28: Custom Linetypes AutoCAD LT ® prov
Page 29 and 30: Linetype Name The linetype name fie
Page 31 and 32: 6 At the Enter Pattern prompt, spec
Page 33 and 34: characters come from the text font
Page 35 and 36: Custom Hatch Patterns AutoCAD LT ®
Page 37 and 38: of hatch lines is generated paralle
Page 39 and 40: the segments in circular fashion. A
Page 41 and 42: Quick Reference Commands ADCENTER M
Page 43 and 44: .5,.5 for the first instance of the
Page 45: HPDOUBLE Specifies hatch pattern do
Page 48 and 49: ■ Create or change macros ■ Def
Page 50 and 51: Overview of the Customize User Inte
Page 52 and 53: CUIIMPORT Imports customized settin
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■ Custom Commands. Displays the u
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Quick Reference Commands CUI Manage
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Menu files mapped to CUIx files Men
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Window menu tree node, shortcut men
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■ Create an Enterprise CUIx File
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Macro A series of commands that are
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Work with the Customize User Interf
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Create User Interface Elements User
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Add a sub-panel on page 159 Create
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Create a Toolbar You assign ribbon
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order for them to be displayed on t
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Add commands on page 225 Change the
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You create and manage workspaces fr
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Change the display properties of a
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All new commands created are added
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4 Enter a new customization group n
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4 Select the item below Main Custom
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NOTE If the partial CUIx file you a
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4 Adjust the properties of the new
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3 Click the plus sign next to Enter
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OPTIONS Customizes the program sett
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3 In the Find and Replace dialog bo
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2 In the Customize User Interface E
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4 Click Close. 5 In the Customize U
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Properties for the Scale command in
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To remove a command 1 Click Manage
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■ In the Extended Help File box,
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NOTE The key combination Ctrl+C can
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For example, the macro ^C^C_circle
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To assign or modify a command macro
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Special characters used in macros C
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NOTE When command input comes from
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The format is: $M=expression Introd
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Following is the resulting Copy Lin
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Simultaneously Disable and Mark Com
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4 In the Properties pane, in the Na
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3 In the Properties pane, select th
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The tag is removed. 5 Click OK. 6 I
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of the extended help topics in the
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6 Click Apply. When the command is
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System Variables TOOLTIPS Controls
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When a command is added to a ribbon
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4 Click Apply. Quick Reference Comm
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NOTE Click Import to import a BMP f
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4 In the Export Image File dialog b
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4 In the Custom Images list, select
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See also: To copy and paste a user
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4 Click Apply. To add a command or
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5 Click Apply. To add and remove co
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A visual indicator bar is displayed
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Properties for the Home 2D - Draw R
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3 Right-click the toolbar that you
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To assign a command to the Panel Di
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command. For more information about
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Properties for the Line Command on
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5 Create a new row for the sub-pane
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6 Drag a command from the Command L
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7 Click Apply. To change the displa
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8 Click Apply. To set the button an
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The following table describes the p
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A new drop-down (named New Drop-dow
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Controls available for ribbon panel
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The Command List pane displays the
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7 Click Apply. Quick Reference Comm
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Display Ribbon Tabs from a Partial
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To add a ribbon panel to a ribbon t
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6 Once the splitter bar is in the p
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5 Right-click the ribbon tab under
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Toolbars Toolbar customization can
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that is displayed in the tooltip wh
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5 In the Command List pane, drag th
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3 Select the toolbar you want to ad
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While dragging the command or contr
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To remove a command or control from
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A new flyout toolbar (named Toolbar
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5 Click Apply. To create a flyout t
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Control elements for toolbars Contr
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To create a pull-down menu 1 Click
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NOTE You can change the name of a c
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Program aliases for shortcut menus
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In many cases, you can enter a hyph
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In the Customize User Interface Edi
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The new shortcut menu (named Shortc
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NOTE You can change the name of a c
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Special characters for submenus Cha
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Absolute Referencing of Pull-Down a
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Main label or alias You can also in
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that are set to display properties
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in the drawing window. Clear the ch
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checked, the attributes for a block
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To synchronize Quick Properties wit
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Overrides. However, after applying
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3 In the Objects pane, select an ob
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Keyboard Shortcuts Shortcut Keys Sh
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■ To modify a shortcut key, selec
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3 In the Shortcuts pane, filter the
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Shortcut Key Assignments Shortcut K
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Overview of Temporary Override Keys
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■ In the Macro 1 (Key Down) box,
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3 In the Shortcuts pane, filter the
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Temporary Override Key Assignments
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■ Right-click DoubleClick1. Click
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DXF Names for Commonly Used Objects
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Mouse Buttons NOTE Double click act
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input when the button is clicked. T
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To clear a tablet menu assignment 1
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You define an image tile menu in th
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To view an image tile slide 1 At th
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Change the Properties of a Workspac
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3 Do one of the following to rename
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4 Click Save to create or modify th
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A duplicate of the workspace (named
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4 Click Apply. To restore the “cl
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3 In the Open dialog box, locate an
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The Customize button displays a men
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■ On the menu bar, click Tools me
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Control the Display of Menus on the
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NOTE Make sure to set the workspace
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NOTE The Tool Palettes window must
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4 Select the toolbar that you want
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5 Select the palette you want to di
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Properties for the Tool Palettes wi
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Transfer and Migrate Customization
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To transfer customizations 1 Click
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for example, expand the menu under
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Enterprise CUIx Files How do I edit
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324
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SETVAR or by entering modemacro at
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two adjacent quotation marks. In th
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You cannot use trailing spaces in a
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(division) = (equal to) Quick Refer
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Quick Reference System Variables ME
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edtime Quick Reference System Varia
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eval fix getenv Passes the string s
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index nth Returns the specified mem
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substr upper Quick Reference System
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344
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You create a slide by saving the cu
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Quick Reference Commands REDRAW Ref
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Create Command Scripts A script is
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Quick Reference Commands DELAY Prov
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3 Click OK. AutoCAD LT opens the dr
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The script may contain comments, as
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358
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epeating 109 reusing 94 ribbon pane
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not equal to 333 nth 340 or 341 rto
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M macros about 101 conditional expr
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eplacing commands in CUIx files 86
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defined 56 importing 282 properties
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