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Welcome to AutoCAD Platform Customization*. Have you ever thought about customizing the
Autodesk® AutoCAD® program only to think it is not for you because you're not a programmer?
If so, you are not alone—many people connect customization with programming. However,
customization is not the same as programming, although programming can be considered a
form of customization.
While using one of the supported programming languages can be useful in implementing
custom workflows and new commands, simpler ways exist to increase your drafting efficiency
in a shorter period of time. AutoCAD supports a wide range of customization features that you
can learn and begin to leverage in minutes, which can lead to improved CAD standards and a
decrease in the amount of time it takes to complete a task.
I, like many others—even you, most likely—have customized AutoCAD without even real-
izing it. Have you ever created a new layer, text style, or block? Chances are pretty good that
you have created one or more of those items before. You might have even stored those items in a
drawing template (DWT) file so they would be available each time a new drawing was created.
While you might not have thought about these as forms of customization, they are indeed a
few of the basic drawing customization features that can be used to enhance the out-of-the-box
AutoCAD experience.
Drawing customization affects the appearance of and settings in a drawing file or drawing
template file, and should form the cornerstone of your company's CAD standards. Often when
people think of customization, they think of application customization, which includes the sup
port files that AutoCAD uses, as well as the tools in the application's user interface. Application
customization is not dependent on which drawing is currently open, but on which user profile
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