Easy Menu Customization Video Lecture | An Ultimate Guide: BricsCAD:Interface and Customization - 3D & Animation

welcome to customizing bricscad my name
is Ralph Garbowsky and it's my pleasure
to show you how to make bricks CAD work
the way you work
this is customizing menus for beginners
and we're gonna have another video after
this for more advanced users but let me
start off with a little bit of a tour of
the menu system here we have the what's
called the menu bar and as I pass the
cursor over each item they light up when
you click on one down drops the actual
menu and there's a few things in here
that I need to point out because they
become important later when we do the
customization first one is notice that
you has three dots behind him that means
that this clicking that will open a
dialog box so that's a bit of a little
bit of a hint there next to new there is
this icon of the icon does nothing it's
just there for visual thing to help you
a clue in if you're more visual person
you see the new icon if you're a verbal
person or words person then you'll see
that word new and on the other side is
this control end and that's the shortcut
keystroke for starting a new file once
again that doesn't do anything here in
the menu it's just there as a reminder
one other thing to show you is that some
of these items have a little wha arrow
next to them that means they open a
submenu and the sub menu contains then
additional items that relate to the same
topic in this case Chaput opening a file
downloading files so on these sub menus
can have further sub menus as well
like many other areas of bricscad you
customized menus through the customize
dialog box let's bring this up now and
take a look at the menu tab make sure
you've clicked that so you can follow
along and here you go and you see the
names of the different items on the menu
bar you've got the file edit view just
like file edit view over here now within
each one you click with this plus sign
and you see what's inside the actual
menu and there's that new command and
new wizard new sheet set and so on
notice that there's the three dots and
it's the second plus sign is those sub
menus so here's those sub menus we saw
earlier now down here is where these
menus are customized so here you see the
name new with the three dots you
actually have to type those three dots
now there's a little help thing there's
the actual command that opens up the new
dialog box and we'll examine in the next
part what that carrot carrot C stands
for and then if you want to add of
course more commands you come over here
to this side and and drag them over but
that's something for the next part here
I just wanted to show you what the
customize dialog box looks like and how
to find your way around it
now the official way to create new menus
is not to touch any of these existing
ones but to work with a new partial menu
file I'm going to go up here to file in
the customize dialog box click on it and
then create new partial cuy file but
lets us put all our customization in
there without affecting the official
menus so I'm gonna click on here and
it's asking me for a name let's call it
my new menu the name really doesn't
matter and down here you can see the new
partial file is displayed by bricscad
now we're gonna put things that appear
on the menu bar in this item called
main menus so what do you want to put in
there well just for this purpose of this
tutorial we'll just throw in a couple of
things now notice you can't drag them
over unfortunately you can't what you
have to do is you have to right-click
main menus a pen main menu give it a
name all we'll call it my object snaps
ok there we go now we can we can now
drag them now that we have a name of a
menu we can drag them there so I'm going
to drag a couple in there and and we're
done
notice down here in this area bricscad
or helpfully fills in all these sections
for us I'm going to click OK so we can
see what our new menu looks like now
would come up here and there's this new
menu called my object snaps that was the
name we gave it click on it and there's
the two new items we added isn't that
easy
let me show you how to make a couple of
modifications to menus if you want to
remove one you open up the customize
dialog box get to the menu item you want
to remove right-click choose delete
brixon says are you sure and in this
case we'll say yes the other a little
change I'm going to show you is here you
can change the names of what is
displayed by menus so I'm going to
change
snap to parent intersection to imaginary
intersection and you can see it's
changed up here the name of it I'll
click OK
we'll go up to our blue menu and there
it is changed as well so those are some
of the simple things you can do to
create new menus and customize existing
ones in another video I'll show you a
bit more advanced stuff and hope to see
you then the trust you enjoyed learning
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