AutoCAD - New to the forum - Introduction & Question

New to the forum - Introduction & Question

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Topic: New to the forum - Introduction & Question

Posted By: EffRestDesign
Subject: New to the forum - Introduction & Question
Date Posted: 02.Jun.2013 at 14:17

Hi all,

I'm Jon. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA & I'm a restaurant designer. I do plans to meet health & building codes, working closely with engineers & contractors to develop restaurants.

I'm here, at this forum, to learn more about the AutoCAD program itself (2013), as I want to learn how to cutomize & create toolbars to fit my business needs and make my process more efficient. I dont know if these types of "program modifications" are even possible, but I figured someone may know.

Ideally, I'd want to create an "equipment menu" , a "notes menu"...Etc. Where I can click and choose the piece of equipment I want/ the note that I need, and paste it onto my floor plan.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

regards,

Jon

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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 03.Jun.2013 at 14:49

Create custom tool palettes and place your equipment and standard notes on the palettes as blocks that can be inserted into your drawings.

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Posted By: heinsite
Date Posted: 04.Jun.2013 at 03:36

I'll expand a little bit on what John said.

I would suggest you create a separate drawing file, or as many as you need that will always be available to your system and contain nothing but custom blocks of the sorts of things you reuse on various projects. These can be static or dynamic blocks. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that they're already created somewhere in a file your custom Tool Palettes will be able to find.

Once you have the block library drawing(s) set up you'll want to think a little bit about how you want to organize your tool palettes. There may be specific categories of things you'll want on separate tabs, etc. Work on that a little but don't worry about it too much, it's easy to change as you go.

Then open your block library files and click/hold/drag block by block into the correct tool palette tabs. From there you can rename or reorient, set layers, and other properties as you like.

This should get you started. Everyone has a different setup. Yours will be custom to your work too. That's the idea.

Dave

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