How does one go about customizing the toolbar layouts or creating a new custom one. Or is there a tutorial on covering this? In the embedded version, you just right click and move the commands around to where you would like them to be located. Any ideas??
You can right click in the toolbar area and add any of the several preloaded toolbars.
In order to move them to a different position, hover the mouse on the left side of the toolbar and you will get the standard windows move arrow (4-directional). Drag and drop to where you want the toolbar.
It looks like to customize, you would right click in the toolbar area and scroll all the way to the bottom of the preloaded choices. At the very bottom of the list is a "customize" option that will open a window in which to work out a custom toolbar.
Hope that helps, because that is as far as I ever go with it. Maybe some of the Carlson gurus on the board will offer more information.
Thanks for replying. I found my way that far, but I want to create a custom tool bar. Maybe once I do some reading in the manual, I will be able to figure it out. I was just hoping someone had already figured it out. 🙂
If you are talking completely custom with custom commands, I can't help.
However, if you are talking about a custom toolbar that has a set of standard icons for commands you use often, that isn't too bad -
When you get to the customize window, you can select any of the toolbar groups and drag and drop individual commands into a 'custom' toolbar. For instance from the "standard" toolbar, you could drag and drop "open" "save" & "print". Then from the "image" toolbar, you could add "attach image" to the same toolbar by dragging and dropping it.
First off, this is old ICad stuff. You are working in ICad, so got to that manual, not Carlson's. Click on the ICad menu to bring up those top commands, and then go to tools, customize and toolbars. You can then drag any icon onto the work surface to make a new toolbar, and just add icons together to make your new toolbar. Remember you can also tick the insert as flyout to compact things together some if you want (I have draw circle, then circle by 3 points as a flyout)
Now if you want to make custom commands, then click on any icon that is already on a toolbar, and it will bring up the commands in the customize box. There you can change the command, tooltip and helpstring.
That will get you to making toolbars, and changing the menus. It looks like only the ICad toolbars come up though. You can still move icons and stuff on the Carlson toolbars, but I am not sure where to get the icons from alone.
Hope that gets you going a bit more.
Neil pretty much nailed it. I've not found an easy way to create a custom toolbar in IntelliCAD of Carlson commands and icons and have asked either the ITC and/or the Carlson programming teams to figure out a solution. Until they do, Carlson/IntelliCAD can make use of (and load) the old MNU file format which is what I've dabbled with. Although I'd prefer a drag-n-drop approach via the IntelliCAD interface, toolbar definitions in the MNU format are fairly simple but do require a bit of knowledge as to how they're structured.
