You can add text and separator to group tools by their similarities.Īs you can see in this example, separating the tools can make it easier to find.
HOW TO CREATE A TOOL PALETTE IN AUTOCAD 2013 LT HOW TO
If you want to learn how to add a macro in the Tool Palette, you can refer to these articles: However, Tool Palettes can be more convenient. Yes, you can use the ribbon or the toolbar for macro too. It allows you to create custom commands if you want to get more advanced. Depends on the tool, there are various properties that you can change.įor example, you can set a dynamic block default states when you insert it from Tool Palettes. You can modify the tool properties to suit your need further. You can also change the tool name from the tool’s Properties. You can disable flyout by changing Use flyout to No.Ĭlick the button next to the Flyout options to choose the tools to show in the flyout. Right click on the tool and click Properties from the context menu. However, you can disable flyout or customize available tools. It means you only need one tool to create lines, arc, or polylines. You can choose the object type to draw from the flyout. When you click the small arrow near the tool name, you see a flyout. Notice that you can change the tool image too. Right click on the tool and click Rename from the context menu. Renaming the tool is the most basic customization to do. Let’s see how you can customize the tools. In this example below, it’s difficult to find the correct line to use. Regardless the line appearance in your drawing. When you drag lines to the Palette, their name and color are the same for all lines. When you have many tools in your Palette, you need to customize the tools to find necessary tool quickly. You may need to create more Palettes for different categories and add all tools that you need. Read this article how you can do it with Design Center. If your DWG contains blocks in a similar category, you can create a Tool Palette from that file quickly. Then drag and drop the block to your Palette. Insert the block definition to this file then save this file in your library folder. You need to create a file as a block library. If you lost the original file, the tool won’t work. It will insert the block from the original file. However, the tool in the Tool Palette doesn’t store the block definition. You can add blocks to the Tool Palette with drag and drop as well. You can add the standards to your palette easily! You can open a completed drawing, drag and drop objects that you want to use in the future to your Palette. All you need is to select an object until it’s highlighted, then drag and drop the object to the Tool Palette. Now we have an empty Palette for our tools. Right click on a Palette tab, and choose New Palette on the context menu. But before we start adding tools to our Palette, let’s create a new Palette.
Adding Objects to Tool PalettesĪdding objects to Tool Palette is easy. Let’s start working with the Tool Palettes. The best thing about the Tool Palette is you don’t need to have programming knowledge! It means that you don’t have to add the layers and styles in your template. You can create a dimension with a particular layer and style.You can add a tool to make hatch with a particular type, size, and layer.Even if the layer doesn’t exist in your drawing, the tool will create one for you with the correct properties. You can make a tool to create a line on layer A-COLS without changing the active layer.The advantage of Tool Palette is, you can customize the properties easily. Tool Palettes is similar to using tools in the Ribbon. In this first article, we cover about using Tool Palettes. We will cover it in several articles, how you can add objects and styles quickly to a drawing. In this situation, it can be better to keep the template at the minimum, and we can use other ways to keep our standards. Sometimes it is hard to determine when you have different sets of standards. However, we must consider not adding too many unnecessary objects to our template. We listed template in our ten features to boost your productivity infographic here. AutoCAD template is an important feature to give you a head start.