Chapter 20: Integrating AutoCAD into Your Projects and Organization

Overview

AutoCAD offers a high degree of flexibility and customization, enabling you to tailor the software's look and feel to your requirements. In this chapter, you will see how to customize AutoCAD so that it integrates more smoothly into your workgroup and office environment.

The first part of the chapter shows how to adapt AutoCAD to fit your particular needs. You will learn how to customize AutoCAD by modifying its menus , and you'll learn how to create custom macros for commands that your workgroup uses frequently.

You'll then take a look at some general issues that arise when you use AutoCAD in an office. In this discussion you might find help with some problems you have encountered when using AutoCAD in your particular work environment. I'll also discuss how to manage AutoCAD projects.