Tailoring AutoCAD, Introduction to AutoCAD Customization

The real power behind AutoCAD, however, is in its ability to be customized to the way you work. Customize is jargon for letting AutoCAD do some of the drafting for you. That can range from drawing a linetype specific to your discipline, to drawing a 3D staircase to fit between two floors and more.

The benefit? You get your work done is less time, or, if you are a free-lancer, you get more work done in the same time.

The drawback to customization is that it takes two bits of time. First, you need to take the time to learn how to customize AutoCAD -- that\'s what this series of tutorials is all about. Then, you need some more time to create the customization.

there are more than two dozen ways to customize AutoCAD (some of these may vary, depending on the version of AutoCAD you are working with):

* ADI - Autodesk Device Interface and plotting formats (replaced by HDI in AutoCAD 2000)
* ADS - AutoCAD Development System (no longer available as of AutoCAD 2000).
* API - Applications programming interface
* ASI - AutoCAD SQL Interface
* DCL - Customizable dialog boxes
* DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange
* DIESEL - Direct Interpretively Evaluated String Expression Language
* DWG - DraWinG; create custom symbols and user-defined objects.
* DXB - Drawing Interchange Binary
* DXF - Drawing Interchange Format
* DXFIX - Drawing translation (no longer available as of AutoCAD 2000)
* HLP and AHP - Customizable help (no longer available as of AutoCAD 2000)
* INI - Toolbar macros and initialization files (no longer available as of AutoCAD 2000)
* LIN - Customizable linetypes
* LSP - AutoLISP
* MNU - Customizable menu and tablet, popdown, cursor, and icon menus
* ObjectARX - AutoCAD Runtime Extension
* OLE - Object linking and embedding
* PAT - Customizable hatch patterns
* PGP - Program parameter files
* RPF - Raster pattern file
* SCR - Script files
* SHP - Customizable text fonts
* SHX - Shapes
* SLD and SLB - Slides and slide libraries
* VBA - Visual Basic for Applications
* VLISP - Visual Lisp

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AutoCAD is a suite of CAD software products for 2- and 3-dimensional design and drafting, developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc.. The original concept of AutoCAD in the 1980s was to promote customization and feature extensibility, and was what made it especially appealing to customers. Most contemporary CAD products at that time offered little if any customization capability and most were far more expensive.

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