Management and customization of common graphics library in AutoCAD

Introduction

In China, Auto CAD has been widely used in all walks of life, playing a more and more important role and become one of the design tools that engineering technicians must master. In the AutoCAD platform in the process of product design, often used in some commonly used graphical symbols, for these high repetition rate, and the use of very frequent graphics, we can make it into blocks, can be inserted at any time, so as to achieve the purpose of re-use. Tile can improve the efficiency of design and cartography, and it is easy to modify, use Design center or external block, realize block resource sharing, and embody the advantage of block. If we want to make these repetitive graphs better to integrate into the AutoCAD system, make it a part of the system, you can use the tile based on the icon menu, icon is the Advanced Levin single option Display form, icon menu as an image, with image, intuitive, easy to operate and so on. Although the icon production cost some time, but the system after the display is a convenient and efficient, illustrated visual graphics library. It can simplify the drawing process and improve the efficiency of drawing, by using the convenient icon menu and the new graphic box person mode.

1. Icon Menu

The icon Levin is also called the image display Levin, to block or 3D objects to draw it and useful, can be a variety of forms of choice to visually display the graphic form, to choose from, is a powerful tool for AutoCAD. The number of menu items defined in the Icon menu is unrestricted, but only 20 images can be displayed at a time, and if more than 20 are available, use the next and previous in the dialog box. Button page to display other images. Or the smaller menu item group is defined as a submenu, which defines a set of menu items in an icon menu area, and when the user selects a submenu, the corresponding submenu is loaded and displayed on the screen.

2. The establishment of Graphics library icon menu

2.1 Building a graphics library

In the AutoCAD installation directory (assuming the C:Program Filesautocad 2002), create a graphics library folder "Myblock", draw a good common graphics after the call Wblock command, the graphics are defined as an external block to the Myblock folder. Suppose the definition tile is named "Symbol 1", "Symbol 2", "Symbol 3" ⋯ "⋯ symbol 40" and so on.

2.2 Creating a Slide file library

In order to better use the icon menu, the method of building a slide library is usually adopted. The purpose of making slides for the icon menu is to display graphical symbols on the icon. The display of graphical symbols will make the user's operations simpler and clearer. AutoCAD generated by each slide can be used as an icon, the production of slides using the msude command, create a slide file (. sld file), and then by creating a slide file name list, using the SUDELB program to make a number of slide files into the slide Library, for the icon menu.

2.2.1 Make slide files

Create a slide folder "MySlide" under the Auto CAD installation directory to maximize the graphics in order to fill the middle of the screen, run the Mslde command, ask to save this slide, set the filename, assuming "symbol 1", "Symbol 2" 、...... "Symbol 40", and save it to the MySlide folder.

2.2.2 Build a Slide Library

Create a slide list file, set up a TXT file assumed to be named MACH.TXT, and in the file to lose the following:

Symbol 1. Sld

Symbol 2. Sld

Symbol 3. Sld

Symbol 40. Sld

Run the SH command, go into the DOS window, make c:programautocad2002myslide the current directory, and execute the command slidelib mach<mach.txt.