How to Change the Paneldes Menu

General

The Paneldes menu file is an AutoCAD partial menu file. It resides in the <EDS>Pnldes directory and is called Paneldes.mnu. You may edit this file with a text editor to alter the structure of the menu file, toolbars and context menu.

There are three sections you can edit

• ***POP8

  **PANELDES

  This is the Paneldes main menu which appears on the AutoCAD menu bar

• ***POP1002

  **PANELDESRIGHTMENU

  This is the Paneldes right button popup menu which contains a subset of the Paneldes main menu.

• ***TOOLBARS

  This section contains the Paneldes toolbars.

  **PNL_CADBF

  This is the Routing: Wire and Cable toolbar

  **PNL_SETUP

  This is the Utilities and BOM toolbar

  **PNL_PANEL

  This is the Construction toolbar

  **PNL_GA

  This is the General Arrangement toolbar

 

Right Button Menus

The Paneldes RIGHT BUTTON menu is also found in the MNU file. The right button menu is titled **PANELDESRIGHTMENU in the MNU file. It normally contains a subset of the commonly used functions found on the Paneldes pull down menu.

For GSTARCAD the MNU file entries for the Paneldes RIGHT BUTTON menu are now loaded to a DBF file named PANELDESMENU.DBF. The Paneldes system will create a RIGHT BUTTON menu at load time with this information. To the user, the right button menus of GSTARCAD and AutoCAD should appear to be identical.

PANELDESMENU.DBF has 3 columns for each menu entry; an ID column which contains an identifier used by the program, a MENUITEM column for the "display text" and a COMMAND column which contains the CAD command line for that function. You do not need to add carriage returns or ";" to this command.