Quick Customize Right-Click Menus - AutoCAD Electrical

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  Quick Customize Right-Click Menus - AutoCAD Electrical
  April 10, 2009, 12:48 PM Nate Holt

  User emails... placement of the "Delete" component command is right next to "Edit" component on the context-sensitive right-click menu. Too often, for this user, the component disappears when user expecting the edit dialog to appear ( ! )

  Here's the User's Problem

  Right-clicks on a selector switch to do a quick edit. Context menu pops up. User lunges for "Edit Component" but gets the button right above it instead. Selector switch disappears ( ! ).

   

  The Quick Fix

  Let's isolate this context menu's "Delete Component" button a bit. Make it is less likely to be selected by mistake.

  Launch the CUI command. Just type CUI [Enter] at the AutoCAD Electrical command line prompt. This dialog appears:

  

  Find the "Electrical" category and expand the "Shortcut Menus". Then expand the "Hot Wire menu only - Schematic components" as shown here:

  

  There's our "Delete Component" entry, sandwiched between "Copy" and "Edit". What can we do about this?

  Solution #1 - Let's put a bit of extra space above and below it in the menu.

  Right click on the "Delete Component" entry and select "Insert Separator". Right click  on the "Copy Component" and do the same. This will insert a line separator below and above the "Delete Component" entry.

  

  Now hit OK to dismiss the CUI dialog. Let's try it. Right click on the selector switch now shows the "Delete Component" a bit better separated from the other commands.

  

   We like this. But now that we know we can do stuff like this, we want even more.

  Solution #2 - move this command to bottom with even more isolation.

  Restart the CUI command. Highlight the "Erase Component" command entry and drag it down to near the bottom of the menu's command list. Add in double sets of "Separators".

  

  Hit OK. Test again. Yes, much better!!!

  

   

   

   

   

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