Customizable action buttons

[Wish List System]

Summary: The ability to create customizable action buttons to prvide the ability to make dim styles, text styles, layers etc current with just one click. Buttons must be able to be positioned as desired.

Description: I find myself using different dimension styles on a regular basis. I would like the ability to be able to create a action button that I can position anywhere on the screen so that when I need to change I can just press the appropriate button. This can be used to make dim styles, text styles, layers etc current with one click. I draw with the ribbon minimized, largest drawing area possible, so i have a number of steps to, for example, make a different dimension style current. (open ribbon, choose pallet, open dim pulldown, wade through all the dimstyles to pick the correct one. One click will be good for those I use regularly. The buttons could be customizable eg, shape, color, numbered etc.

Product and Feature: AutoCAD - User Interface

Submitted By: Lynton Ivins on 11/30/2013

[Tom Beauford]

A routine to make dim styles, text styles, layers etc current by selecting an approite object can be done. You could place it in the Quick Access Toolbar for it to work with the ribbon minimized.

[jaberwok]

Why not just use toolbars? Just as we have for years.
Just because the ribbon is there doesn't mean we have to drop everything else - especially as the "everything else" is usually more efficient.

[BlackBox]

Don't forget... A Tool Palette can already do all of the above OOTB as well. :thumbsup:

[dgorsman]

Why not just use toolbars? Just as we have for years.
Just because the ribbon is there doesn't mean we have to drop everything else - especially as the "everything else" is usually more efficient.

Toolbar, Ribbon, Menu - under CUIx, its all the same thing. One command, multiple references.

[jaberwok]

Toolbar, Ribbon, Menu - under CUIx, its all the same thing. One command, multiple references.

True but irrelevant.
It would take a "massive" toolbar to take up a quarter as much screen space as the ribbon.