Customize Tool Palettes
You can add tools to a tool palette with several methods.
You
can create new tool palettes using the Properties button on the title bar of the
Tool Palettes window. Add tools to a tool palette with the following
methods:- Drag any of the following onto your tool palette: geometric objects such as lines, circles, and polylines; dimensions; hatches; gradient fills; blocks; xrefs; raster images.
- Drag drawings, blocks, and hatches from DesignCenter to the tool palette. Drawings that are added to a tool palette are inserted as blocks when dragged into the drawing.
- Use the Customize dialog box to drag commands to a tool palette just as you might add them to a toolbar.
- Use the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor to drag commands to a tool palette from the Command List pane.
- Use Cut, Copy, and Paste to move or copy tools from one tool palette to another.
- Manage tool palettes
by creating new palettes from scratch, renaming, deleting or moving palettes
with the shortcut menu.
NoteIt is not recommended to create or rename tool palettes when the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor is displayed.
- Create a tool palette
tab with predetermined content by right-clicking a folder, a drawing file, or a
block in the DesignCenter tree view, and then clicking Create Tool Palette on
the shortcut menu.
- You can associate a customizable tool palette group with each panel on the ribbon. Right-click the ribbon panel to display a list of available tool palette groups.
NoteIf the source drawing file for
a block, xref, or raster image tool is moved to a different folder, you must
modify the tool that references it by right-clicking the tool and, in the Tool
Properties dialog box, specifying the new source file folder.
Once tools are placed
on a tool palette, you can rearrange them by dragging them around or by sorting
them. You can also add text and separator lines to tool palettes.
You can move a tool palette tab up and down the list of tabs by using the tool palette shortcut menu or the Tool Palettes tab of the Customize dialog box. Similarly, you can delete tool palettes that you no longer need. Tool palettes that are deleted are lost unless they are first saved by exporting them to a file. You can control the path to your tool palettes on the Files tab in the Options dialog box. This path can be to a shared network location.
You can move a tool palette tab up and down the list of tabs by using the tool palette shortcut menu or the Tool Palettes tab of the Customize dialog box. Similarly, you can delete tool palettes that you no longer need. Tool palettes that are deleted are lost unless they are first saved by exporting them to a file. You can control the path to your tool palettes on the Files tab in the Options dialog box. This path can be to a shared network location.
If a tool palette
file is set with a read-only attribute, a lock icon is displayed in a lower
corner of the tool palette. This indicates that you cannot modify the tool
palette beyond changing its display settings and rearranging the icons.
To apply a read-only attribute to a tool palette, right-click the tool palette (ATC) file in the following location: C:\documents and settings\<user name>\application data\autodesk\AutoCAD 2010\r17.2\enu\support\ToolPalette\Palettes. On the shortcut menu, click Properties. On the General tab, select Read-only, and click OK.
To apply a read-only attribute to a tool palette, right-click the tool palette (ATC) file in the following location: C:\documents and settings\<user name>\application data\autodesk\AutoCAD 2010\r17.2\enu\support\ToolPalette\Palettes. On the shortcut menu, click Properties. On the General tab, select Read-only, and click OK.
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