AutoCAD Toolbar Customization

To make CAD Standards easier to follow you can implement some low tech customization of AutoCAD or Land Desktop.  This customization is applicable to straight AutoCAD.  You do not need Land Desktop to use these toolbars.

How to create Custom Toolbars. The file Toolbar Customization - How To.zip is a document with pictures explaining how to customize toolbars.

Custom Toolbars for Layers and Polylines. This is an example of two customized toolbars defined in a single menu file. BrianMorse_Toolbars.zip includes the following toolbars defined in the menu file BrianMorse.mnu:

 

Polyline Tricks

• 3D Polyline
• Polyline
• Edit Polyline
• Reverse Polyline Direction
• Polygon with 6 sides
• Rectangle-Rotate
• Boundary on BND

 

Hydro Layers

• Isolate Pavement Layer
• Isolate the Grass Layer
• Isolate Time of Concentration Layers
• LDT Layer Script

Watch a movie demonstrating how the LDT Layer Script works.