Return to the Drawing Explorer

Since BricsCAD V20 the LAYER, PDF, IMAGE, and XREF commands default to panels instead of using the Drawing Explorer. Users wanting to use the original Drawing Explorer option must use the EXPLAYERS, EXPPDF, EXPIMAGE and EXPXREFS commands instead, or press CTRL + 2 on the keyboard to launch the drawing explorer to the last panel used.

Drawing Explorer Menu

To allow users to revert to using the Drawing Explorer as the default option, we've created a menu (partial cui) that will do just that.  On loading of this menu, the LAYER, PDF, IMAGE, and XREF commands are redefined to use the Drawing Explorer by default. As well as this, we've provided two additional toolbars.

Layers Toolbar

The layers toolbar is an alternative to BricsCAD's one, providing access to all the common layer requirements. It provides access to layers via the Drawing Explorer as well as allowing you to toggle the new layers panel on/off.

Explorer Toolbar

The explorer toolbar provides buttons to navigate to all the common sections within the Drawing Explorer

Setup

• Download the zip file using the Buttons below and extract the contents to a known location. Make sure that you keep the extracted files together in the same folder.
• In BricsCAD run the MENULOAD command, select the cui file from your folder location, then pick the Load button.

WARNING DO NOT use the MENU command to do this! If you do, then you will lose ALL your other menus.

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