I share what I know and always have a great feeling when I help someone solve a problem with CAD. I have always been very busy with my work and tried to find new ways to decrease my picks and clicks to become more efficient with AutoCAD. All of the tips, tricks, and items posted are derived from personal experience through work, collaborating with my peers, and blogs I have followed over the years. On a final note, I am proud to accept an invitation to become a member of the Expert Elite Program at Autodesk. The type of monitor you have can affect this setting as well, change the number to best suit your setup and remember you can always put it back to default by entering 208 in the minimum width column. I do not recommend long layer names, keep consistent with industry standards and use 4 letters to abbreviate long strings. Keep in mind since AutoCAD 2014 when you pull down the layer combo box the width will expand to your longest layer name. The final result should look something like Figure 3 as shown below. Hit apply and OK to get out and watch how your Layer Combo has changed.Change the value from the default value of 208 to 320 (I am using AutoCAD 2016).Uncheck the Quick Access toolbar to pull down the menu.Let’s go into the CUI and make a quick edit. Type CUI at the command prompt. Now that we have the Layer Combo Control bar in the QAT we want change the default width to see those long layer names that are current.

Once added you will see the bar as shown below. If you do not know how to add this to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) simply perform a right-click on the layer combo control on the Home Tab – Layers Panel on the Ribbon and select add to Quick Access Toolbar. Many people place this bar on the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) as shown in Figure 1. There is more to it than just making it longer on the Ribbon.

Over the past year, I have had several questions come up on how to make the original size of the layer combo control bar a little longer.

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