After all, if you’re using toolbars and you want to use the “Data Extraction” button it isn’t very logical or intuitive to find.
The ribbon helps from looking down at the keyboard and the panels which ARE the toolbars are logically arranged and fairly easy to find. Even though I like to use the command line and use aliases a lot. Overall, I think that the ribbon is a great feature. Now your buttons will show text and you don’t have to guess or hover over the buttons. This will open the properties for that button in area 3Ĭlick the “Button style” dropdown list and choose an option. I changed the Spline and hatch buttons to show text next to the button, because I tend to forget what buttons they are.Ĭlick navigate to the draw panel by following the picture belowĬlick on the button as it appears in the panel. To show text next to buttons, follow these 3 steps This will bring up the “ Customize User Interface” dialog box as seen below. Or click the “Manage” tab and in the “customization” panel, click the User Interface button.
#Autocad customize ribbon how to
In this Blog post, I am not going to show how to create a new ribbon or panel (I will save that for its own post) but I will show you how to alter buttons in the panel to have a text label show next to the button. You can show the buttons at different sizes and even have text appear next to the button so that you don’t have to hover over the button to find out what it is. You can create custom panels and ribbons in the CUI. If you like creating your own toolbars, you will love crea With these dropdown buttons, the last option that you use will be seen next to the dropdown arrow when the list collapses or when you are down with the command. It will work with the Ribbon but not with Classic. And that is the circle with the “TTT” or “tangent, tangent, tangent” option. There is 1 circle command that I know of that does not work in the classic setup at all (unless you use a lisp routine).
Some of these options are available in the classic setup but only if you see the options in the command line when starting the command or you know how to call the function in the middle of the command. If you click on these arrows, more options will appear.
But the buttons found in the panel have more options. Notice that the buttons look the same as they do in the toolbar. Simply click anywhere on the lower portion where the name of the panel and arrow reside and the panel will expand. Whenever you see an arrow next to the name of a panel it means that there are more tools available. The draw panel is the section on the ribbon dedicated to drawing tools/buttons. Notice that the draw panel is on the “Home tab” or “Home Ribbon” You may hear people use “tab” and “ribbon” interchangeably. 16 of which are not available in the toolbar. Try that with the classic toolbars…ĭraw Panel has 36 buttons. However, in the ribbon, you can have it just show the buttons (like the toolbar) or show the buttons and text. If you don’t know what a button is in the toolbar, you have to hover over the button to see that name of it. These panels even have display options that the toolbars don’t even have. These panels in the ribbon even have more options than the toolbars have. And these panels are logically organized by a tab. What I found is that the beloved toolbars in classic are indeed the panels in the ribbon. I even found that people’s arguments against the ribbon were unfounded. Until I heard that there were rumors that Autodesk would eventually get rid of the “Classic” workspace and I thought to myself, ‘Autodesk isn’t doing this to make things harder, they do these things to make drafting easier, (and to copy whatever Microsoft does…) so I should at least try it.’Īfter about 3 days I was moving around the ribbon fairly easily and really enjoying it. I would look at my fellow students and see them using the ribbon and wonder how they were able to function. I would show up to class and changed my workspace to the classic interface with the lovely toolbars. In the past year, I have made the switch to AutoCAD’s ribbon interface.
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