WUI Toolbars

[gmatelich]

Has anyone created icon based toolbars they're interested in sharing? I would really love to see an interface that mimics Modelings toolbars. I'm not very fond of the default Windows UI. The cascading style seems less efficient than the old UI, so we keep carrying forward our highly customized classic menus.

Attached is a zip of 4 toolbars we use. They aren't really part of an overall interface, just a bunch common tasks.

[John Scheffel]

We have created a few by stealing icons from Annotation. They work even though they are a different size than the icons in Drafting. Modeling icons are 24x24 pixel bitmap files, but Drafting icons are 16x16 bitmaps. So toolbars containing Modeling icons are taller than the standard Drafting toolbars, but they seem to work fine.

I agree that Drafting needs more icons and standard toolbars. We have pestered CoCreate about providing more standard toolbars and icons in Drafting in the past. We have also requested that they use the same icons for the same operations in both Annotation and Drafting to reduce confusion and make it look more like the "Suite" it is now supposed to be. As of version 12 still no progress on this.

[Mike "the Rat"]

Greetings All,

Check out the link below for a full screen of toolbars.

http://www.deadnutsengineering.com/wuicustomicons.htm

Warm regards,
Mike "the Rat"

[John Scheffel]

Although it pales in comparison to what Mike posted, here is a screen shot showing our custom toolbars using some of the Annotation icons. I will attach a zip file of the macros and icons in the next post.

[John Scheffel]

Here is a zip file containing our icons and macros. If you unzip directly under MEDIR, you can just INPUT the "at_toolbars\toolbars.m" file. If you unzip elsewhere, you will need to edit the toolbars.m file and change the "Mecorpwindir" variable definition at the top to the correct path. After input, open toolbars that begin with "AT" to try them out. If you have any problems let me know. I did not test all of these to verify that they aren't running macros loaded from other customization files not included in the zip.