Hi. Welcome on the new video on AutoCADer channel where I`ll tell you something about tool palettes.
Tool Palettes is a type of palette where you can add commands, items which you are using the most often,
like: hatches, Styles but also Your own Blocks ect.
To turn on Tool Pallete, on the Ribbon go to View Tab, and under Palettes, select Tool Palettes.
Alternatively – you can just simply type TOOLLPALETTES in AutoCAD command line and hit enter or use CTRL+3 shortcut.
Tool Palettes can be divided into groups, and as you can see by deafoult there are already few of them created
and divided for particular specialisations, like Architectural, Electrical, Civil and so on.
Just go through it and see whats in there. Then you will be able to decide which palettes, if any, you want to leave
and which to delete if you do not plan to use them.
There is an option to delete particular tabs or particular tools within one tab.
To do so just select tab or tool, right click and select Delete. Likewise you can create your own tabs and put some your own stuff in there.
So lets create new toolpalette named "Autocader".
And lets say you want to put some very specific block which you are yousing quite often.
Before you do that, you must save drawing containing this block.
Then simply drag and drop block from model space to toolpalette, and thats it!
Next time you`ll run AutoCAD – it will be already there. Just click on proper tool to insert it in AutoCAD.
Important is however that drawing containing elements which you are putting into tool palettes, cannot be then renamed, moved or deleted.
This drawing is the source fot the toolpalette items which you`ve drag in.
Thats why my suggestion is for you to create one master drawing which will contain all your stuff which you want to add to toolpaletes,
and save it in some known location where no one will delete it by accident.
So as an example, lets add a few more items to the toolpaletes,
now save source drawing and close it.
Now when you open blank AutoCAD drawing – you`ll see that tools which we`ve added just a second ago – are there and you can use them.
Source file can always be edited.
Note that once particular element will be changed in source drawing,
and you will keep name of this item as well as name of the source drawing – changes will be automatically applied on the tool palletes.
Let`s open Source Drawing again, make some random changes to this block.
When you`re done, jutt save and close source drawing.
Now try to insert that block from toolpaletes in blank drawing.
See? Its changed just the way you`ve done it within source drawing.
The power of toolpaletes is that these can be shared to multiple users within one company or team
so that everyone have access to these. This makes output drawings coherent.
However remember that source drawing path needs to be exactly the same for ALL users which you want to share tool palletes with.
In most of the companies there is always some shared network location like server, so you can save source drawing in there,
, and then drag and drop items to toolpallettes on each user`s PC.
But there is also another way on how you can share toolpalettes.
First however, you must know that there are files controling tool palettes, and these, by deafoult, are stored on you C Drive.
Go to AutoCAD options, open Files Tab, and expand „Toollpalete file location".
The path which you can see is deafoult one. So if we go to this path now,
you can see that there is file responsible for Autocader tab which I`ve created a minute ago.
The reason I`m telling you about this is that if you want to share your own toolpaletes with all members of your team,
without necessity of dragging and dropping items from source drawing to the palette on each PC
you can instead share these aep files with all users, and ensure path for these files is the same for everyone.
To do this, just move whole ToolPalette folder from default to network location. Remember to save another backup copy somewhere else!
So I`m gonna move it ot my D drive.
Now on AutoCAD options, change toolpalettes file location path to the one where you have moved ToolPalettes a minute ago.
Save changes, click ok.
Now what you have to do is Close and Re-open AutoCAD.
Then ATC file for each new palette will be saved on network location.
That way by changing toolpalettes once – these will be automatically updated on each PC which does have the same tool paletes file location path.
Note however that if you are doing changes to shared toolpaletes – noone else except you can have AutoCAD opened!!
Otherwise all changes will be lost.
So, to sum up, basically there are 2 options on how to share toolpalettes, take a look at the info graphic.
First option – Create source drawing with all specific items which you want to add to tooll palettes and save this drawing on the server,
Then drag and drop items from source drawing to the toolpalette on each PC.
This option is recommended if you don't plan to add/remove pelettes/items very often.
You can however still modify existing ones.
Second option - Create source drawing , save it on the server
Then Move Toolpalettes folder from default to network location.
On AutoCAD oiptions change filepath of toolpalettes to that location.
Then Close & Re-open AutoCAD. Then drag and drop items from source drawing to the toolpalette only on one PC.
This option is recommended if you plan to add/remove new palletes / items quite often.
At the end, lets say something about customization of graphic representation of tool palletes.
You can merge toollpalettes into groups. To do so, just right-click on the toollpalettes and select "Customize Palettes".
On the prompted window, you can see list of all palettes
and the way these are divided into groups.
To create new group, just right-click on the right hand side, select "New Group" and give it a name.
Then simply drag&drop required palletes to that group. When you`re done you can close this window.
Now, right-click on the area where tool palette name is displayed
There you can see the name of the group, which I`ve created a minute ago.
Selecting this group will cause that only these palettes which I`ve added to that group - will be visible.
Except the features which are common to all palletes and which I`ve described previously,
there are a few additional options for tool palettes.
Right click and select "View options".
There you can decide whether you want to see tools as Icon, Icon with text or text only.
You can also adjust sizes of same.
Other than that, you can also add text and separators in order to organise tools within one tool pallete tab.
So as you can see there are a lot of posibilities to modify tool paletes. Decide which one is best for you.
Tool Palettes are really one of the best things on how to make your AutoCAD work efficient.
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