Keyboard shortcut: DTL
Toolbar button:
Compatible with AutoCAD Versions: 13, 14, 2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

DETAILER

The detailer command is designed to aid in the creation of details by creating many of the components that make up a detail. It has several commands to make it quick and easy to create a variety of materials. 

The DETAILER command has been designed so that the same command will be executed again if you press <Enter> or <Space> once a command has been completed. For example: if you had just drawn some plywood and pressed the space bar, the plywood command would come up again with the thickness you had just used as the default. This allows you to quickly draw several sheets of plywood without having to go through detailer dialog. Just press <Space> or <Enter> twice and you are back drawing plywood of the same thickness as the piece you had just drawn. 

User configurable options: 

• See individual commands for specific options or the Section/Detail Cmds section of the APS-CONFIG command.

Layers:

• See the individual commands for how each command handles layers.

Known limitations:

• See individual commands

• Submit a limitation not listed.

Alternate uses:

• See individual commands

• Submit an alternate use not listed

SAMPLE DETAILER COMMAND SYNTAX:

Command:
Command: DTL
Command: DETAILER

The following dialog appears:

Select the material that you wish to draw from the choices shown.

You may also directly select the individual materials using the Detailer pull-down, a toolbar button, or by entering the material's command name.

Select a material above or a material command name below to find out more about that material's command.

Detailer Pull-Down

Toolbar buttons & command names ACTILE Acoustical Tile ANGSEC Steel Angle Sections BATTS Batt Insulation BOLTS Hex, Lag, Expansion & "J" Bolts BRICK Brick CCHAN Steel "C" Channels CMU Concrete Masonry Unit Block DIMLUMB Dimension Lumber DRJAMB Hollow Metal Door Jamb EIFS External Insulation & Finish System FURCHAN Furring Channels GLULAM Glue-Laminated Beams GYPBD Gypsum Board IJOIST Wood "I" Joist LVLBEAM Laminated Veneer Lumber Beam MTLDECK Metal Decking MTLHANG NAIL Nail PARTBD Particle Board PLYWD Plywood RIGINS Rigid Insulation RNDTUBE Round Structural Steel Tube SCREW Simple Screws SCREWC Detailed Screws (Complex) SOUNDBD Sound Board SQRTUBE Square Structural Steel Tube STLSTUD Steel Studs & Channels TGDECK Tongue & Groove Wood Decking WDFLNG Wide-Flange Beams/Columns

When calling the DETAILER command the last detail command used will appear unless the CMDCONT_KLH# variable has been set to NIL. If you are using any of the APS menus this has been taken care of for you. If you are using your own custom menu and/or you would like to add the detailer command use the following line:

^c^c^c(SETQ CMDCONT_KLH# NIL);APS-DETAILER

This line tells the DETAILER command to display the main dialog box (shown above) instead of repeating the last detailer command used.

Solutions to common questions and problems with this command