Roundup: The Best AutoCAD Customization Tips – Tuesday Tips

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We know that one of the best things about AutoCAD is the ability to customize it in whatever ways you find helpful. We might be a little late to the whole “new year, new me” thing, but why not take a look at our best blog tips for AutoCAD customization and stop putting off the changes you’ve been wanting to make?

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Here are our favorite customization tips from the last few years:

  • Robert Bell’s “Bootstrap AutoCAD Deployments for Customizations” Series
    • Complete this series and, using just a few simple options and some very simple AutoLISP code, you’ll be able to reliably roll out your AutoCAD customizations during a new deployment to get up and running without delay or hassle.
  • Customizing the Tool Palette
    • Heidi Hewett shows you how to use DesignCenter to quickly create new tool palettes for your blocks.
  • The AutoCAD Customization Forum
    • The Autodesk Community has an entire section devoted to AutoCAD customization!
  • Lee Ambrosius’s entries on Basic AutoCAD Customization
    • Everything you need when you’re just getting started.
  • AutoCAD 2018 and AutoCAD LT 2018’s in-product help guides
    • When you don’t really want to leave the program, but you want to know a lot about customization.

What are your favorite resources for AutoCAD customization? Chime in in the comments!

More Tuesday Tips

Check next week for another entry in our Tuesday Tips series.

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