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The Material Editor
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AutoCAD 2010: Starting a Command
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AutoCAD 2010: The User Interface - Part 1
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A lot of people using AutoCAD 2007 and above don't like the new XREF Manager, so here's a simple way to get the old one back.
AutoCAD 2007 introduced a new way to manage XREFs and to bring up the "old" XREF Manager, you have to type CLASSICXREF at the command line. Well, if you want things back the way they were and use the classic XREF Manager as the default from the keyboard and from the menu, a few adjustments will get you there…
First, go to
. This command opens the ACAD.PGP file in Notepad. This is where all the keyboard shortcuts are defined.Next, scroll down until you see XR (or use ), change the value from *XREF to *CLASSICXREF and save ( ). Close Notepad and return to AutoCAD. Enter the command REINIT, check the "PGP File" checkbox and click "OK". That fixes the keyboard so that next time you type XR, you'll see the old manager and not the new one.
To change your Menu, type CUI at the command line. In the "Customizations in All CUI Files" pane of the "Custom User Interface" dialogue, go to and click on it once to highlight it.
Now, in the "Properties" pane, change the "Macro" setting from ^C^C_externalreferences to ^C^C_classicxref, click "OK" to save the changes and you're done.
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Creating Custom Bitmap Materials
This tutorial demonstartes how to create your own bitmap based materials using Photoshop and AutoCAD.