This article reviews the creation of custom toolbars.
Part I reviews the modification of existing toolbars.
Part III reviews the creation of custom toolbar buttons.
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Creating new toolbars is about as easy as modifying existing ones. One use of a new toolbar is to reconfigure existing AutoCAD toolbar buttons to your own tastes. Another is to create a palette of custom buttons which launch custom commands such as VBA, Lisp, or other macros. If you follow our belief in the 80-20 rule, custom toolbars are for you.
The first four steps are the same as Part I.
First, right click on any toolbar on your screen:
Now, select 'Customize':
This will bring up the 'Toolbars' dialog. Now click on 'Customize...':
This will bring up the Customize Toolbars' dialog:
Now, if your new toolbar will hold existing buttons, click on the 'Categories' drop down and select a category:
This will present you the available existing buttons for that category:
To create a new toolbar, click on and drag the button you want and drop it onto the drawing area:
And now you have a new toolbar:
To add additional buttons, simply select the category you want and drag and drop the buttons onto the toolbar:
Notice that the toolbar is assigned a generic name, 'Toolbarxx'. To give the toolbar a useful name, right click in the toolbar's title bar and you will be presented with the 'Toolbar Properties' dialog:
Double click in the 'Name:' box to highlight and change the name of the toolbar, then click the 'Apply' button:
The 'Help:' box can be filled in with any descriptive text for the toolbar, if you wish.
You follow this method to create new toolbars and populate them with existing AutoCAD toolbar buttons.
In Part 3, we look at creating custom toolbar buttons.