MPOLYGON Button?

Hi all,

I am running Civil 3d 2010. I am wondering if there is a MPOLYGON button. I will be making a lot of mpoly's shortly and a button would be convenient.

I have seen it in CAD MAP under the "Create" ribbon, but I cant find it in Civil.

Thanks!

Why don't you modify an unused icon of your drawing set?

Type in CUI, then change as _MPOLYGON the command associated to the Helix, for instance.

Just add the "MPOLYGON" command from the CUI into your workspace. Find it in the command list and then Drag and drop it into which ever tab you want it to be in.

Or you could create an alias for the command, such as "MP". Easy to type.

Excellent, in CUI I looked up Helix and on the macro line I enterend _MPOLYGON and that worked great so thank you Emigrato.

As far as the click-and-drag method that was not working for me it would not allow me to drag anything anywhere.

I dont know if this requires another post but Bill mentioned creating an alias command? How is that done?

Thanks so much resolving this issue

You would have to edit your acad.pgp file which can be done from with AutoCAD via the Ribbon. The Manage tab > Customization panel > Edit Aliases. Put your new command aliases at the end of the file where noted.

I dont know if this requires another post but Bill mentioned creating an alias command? How is that done?

Via the acad.pgp file. In AutoCAD 2012, Ribbon: Manage>Customization>Aliases; Pull Downs: Tools>Customize>Edit Program Parameters (acad.pgp).

At the end of the pgp file, add

 
MP,         *MPOLYGON

Save AND exit file; then type Reinit at the command prompt; check PGP File; click OK. Try entering MP at the command prompt and you should get MPOLYGON.

See post #17 by nestly in this thread re: acad.pgp and editing.

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?70197-Alias-s-or-shortcuts-won-t-work-in-2012-what-can-I-do-to-fix-this/page2&highlight=acad.pgp

in order to drag the command into a tab, you have to have the entire order expanded, even the Rows. Then drag the command into there. Takes a few times to get used to it.

I would not recomend changing the macro of a command. Down the road you may have to make a helix, and find out that you changed your button and not remember what the old Macro was.

The Alias is pretty fool proof, just make sure that you dont have any duplicate shortcut commands. You will implode the universee if that happens.