Use the Icon Menu Wizard to customize the icon menus easily. Adds new or edits existing items and pages on the AutoCAD Electrical icon menus.
- Copy, cut, and paste icons from one submenu into another.
- Drag icons within the Symbol Preview window to rearrange. Place icons used commonly at the top.
- Create an icon for components or circuits you insert, or an AutoCAD Electrical command you run.
The Icon Menu Wizard can be used to add or modify icons for both the schematic and panel symbol libraries. You can add new menu pages to the AutoCAD Electrical icon menu, and then populate them with your own custom symbols. Each new page can have icon selections that cascade down to other new menu pages.
- Copy, cut, and paste icons from one submenu into another.
- Drag icons to place those icons that are commonly used at the top, and those icons that are used less frequently at the bottom of the window.
- Create new icons to use when inserting components.
- Add new icon menu pages.
Once you click OK in any of the Add Icon dialog boxes, the following happens:
- The new icon is created and saved depending on the status of the WD_SLB code in the environment file (.env).
If WD_SLB is disabled in the environment file, the Images folder of the corresponding icon menu .dat file is created (if it does not exist) and new images are saved here,C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD Electrical {version}\{release}\{country code}\Support\Images\.
If you browsed to an existing image, the image is copied to the Images folder.
If WD_SLB is enabled, the Images folder corresponding to the folder defined by the WD_SLB is created (if it does not exist) and new images are saved here. If the WD_SLB value is “N:\Electrical\Menu” then the folder N:\Electrical\Menu\Images is created and used. If you browsed to an existing image, the image is copied to the Images folder.
Note: You can enclose the image path within quotation marks if you do not want the images copied to the Images folder. The .dat file saves the absolute path instead. For example, if the image file edit box contains “C:\Desktop\push_button.png,” then the push_button.png is not copied to the Image folder.
- The new icon is added to the end of the existing icon images in the Symbol Preview window of the Icon Menu Wizard dialog box.
- The relative path of the new icon information is written to the .dat file once you click OK in the Icon Menu Wizard dialog box. However, the complete path of the block or circuit is saved in the .dat file if the Block Name edit box or the File name edit box contains the complete path of the drawing file.