AutoCAD 2004 Customization Tutorial: Display
Settings
By Alireza Parsai,
May 1, 2003
You can use the OPTIONS command to assign different colors to
drawing area elements, and different fonts to command window.
Here is a tutorial. The tutorial is written for AutoCAD 2004 but
is applicable to other releases of AutoCAD.
1. Start AutoCAD.
2. Right-click in Command window area.
3. In the shortcut menu, select Options [Figure 1].
Figure 1
4. In Options dialog box select Display tab [Figure 2].
Figure 2 -
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5. Click Colors.
6. Click in Model Tab background area [Figure 3].
Figure 3
7. In Color list click select color.
8. The Select Color dialog box appears. Select a light gray
color in True Color tab [Figure 4]. Click OK.
Figure 4
9. In Window Element list select Command line background.
10. Select blue color for the Command line background [Figure
5].
Figure 5
11. Alter the Command line text color to yellow.
12. Click Apply & Close.
13. In Options dialog box click Fonts. The Command Line Window
Font dialog box appears [Figure 6].
Figure 6
14. In Font Style list select Bold.
15. Click Apply & Close.
16. In Options dialog box click OK. The appearance of the
display changes [Figure 7].
Figure 7 -
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About the Author
Alireza Parsai is the founder of cadpanel.com. He is a
mechanical engineer with more than 12 years experience with
AutoCAD. Alireza is an Autodesk Authorized Author, the AutoCAD
consultant for Al Khawarizmi Institute, a contributing editor
for Augiworld magazine, a writer for CAD Digest, an instructor
for AUGI Training Program, and an elected speaker for Autodesk
University 2002. He has written 7 books in Farsi, 3 booklets in
English, and more than 30 articles for different magazines and
newsletters. You can reach him at
alireza.parsai@cadpanel.com or visit his website
www.cadpanel.com.
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