UCS button?

Mark Jorgensen
Mark Jorgensen
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Some days I am doing work in 2D that required me to change my ucs when dimensioning every few minutes.  AutoCad had a button I could use to set the UCS to a line, then back to normal.  Right now I keep using the command bar and type in "UCS" then E to snap to a line, then UCS P, to get my UCS back to normal.

Is there a toolbar button for this, because I sure can't find it.  I find this very annoying as I use toolbar buttons for most everything and I don't have a clue how to make my own.

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  • S G
    S G
    • Right click top bar that host all your GUI commands
    • A menu comes out, Select Customize 
    • select toolbars tab
    • In left box with tree starting with "BRICSCAD" right click on this "BRICSCAD" text
    • In menu that comes out select "Append toolbar" (and give it a name then click ok)
    • Go through tree list to find the name you gave your new toolbar, once found right click it and select "append tool"
    • At top of add tool box: select "Create new tool"
    • Now in the boxes below the top box, just keep toolbox as is for now I believe it it will say file in pulldown.
    • in next box below: Give your command a title like "UCSLine"
    • Help just explains what the command does when hovering over it you can leave it blank or tell yourself what your command will do.
    • In the command box put: ^c^c_ucs;_e;
    • Furthermore in the command box you can also do instead of ^c^c_ucs;_E;, by taking out the ';' and replace them with spaces which is a good habit for scripting too like so: "^c^c_ucs _E "
    • You can find or make yourself a 16x16 pixels or 32x32 pixels .bmp image or better yet .png image.
    • Click ok
    • Click ok
    • Right click on top top bar again and go to BRICSCAD pull out and find your toolbars name you just made
    • Toolbar you just created should show up somewhere on your screen and you should be good to go form there.
    • Repeat these steps to create another button to go back to plan view with code: "^c^c_ucs _p "
    There may be a way to make a button toggle between your special entities UCS and plan UCS by using LISP or other code but these macros are quick and easy they just take up more space.

    I personally use custom aliases set int he PGP file for most all commands since I can type fast and when UCS is needed I type UCS which is not that often. I think the keyboard is faster most of the time than moving mouse across the screen to click a button. But I digress :)

    Hope that helps.

    Thanks,
    Steven

  • Mark Jorgensen
    Mark Jorgensen
     Steven,

    Thank you!  
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