Create tool palettes by adding blocks and complete DWG files.
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Transcript
00:03
Tool
00:04
pellets and AUTOCAD provide a way for users to
00:07
access a variety of content quickly and easily.
00:11
They also provide a way for organizations to share this content
00:15
in a network environment,
00:17
allowing the content to be updated and pushed out to the users. In
00:22
this example, I'll create a new palette and then bring content into it.
00:27
But first,
00:28
let's go ahead and open the tool pallet by going to
00:31
the view tab on the ribbon
00:34
over to the pallets panel
00:36
and clicking on tool pallets
00:39
to create a new pallet
00:41
simply right click
00:43
and choose
00:44
new palette.
00:47
The default name appears as new pallet.
00:51
For this example,
00:52
I'm gonna give it a simple name of
00:55
my
00:57
tool palette
01:02
and then you can see
01:04
the tool palette has been created,
01:07
you now essentially have a clean canvas or an empty
01:11
plate to be able to add content to this pallet.
01:14
So with that being said, what kind of content can be added to a tool pallet?
01:20
Let's go through some of these. In this example.
01:25
The first thing I'll show is blocks
01:28
I have blocks in this drawing
01:31
that I'd be able to drag and drop onto the pallet.
01:34
One thing to be aware of though
01:37
is
01:38
you can't grab the block by the grip
01:41
and drag it to the pallet. This doesn't work.
01:44
What you have to do
01:46
is left click and hold with your mouse button
01:51
on the block until you can see a gray
01:55
rectangle appear under your cursor.
01:59
Now I'm holding the left mouse button down at this point. Once you see that
02:04
you can go ahead and then drag it onto
02:07
your tool pallet
02:09
and just like that, we now have
02:11
that particular block
02:13
on the tool pallet.
02:15
So any time I want to grab that block, I can just select it from the pallet
02:21
and then drop it into the drawing.
02:24
We can do that with
02:26
any other block that's in the drawing
02:32
quickly and easily from drawing content.
02:36
So what else can we bring into a tool palette?
02:39
We can also bring in complete drawing files.
02:46
If I open
02:48
windows, file explorer
02:50
and I go to our data set,
02:52
I can drag and drop
02:55
an entire drawing file
02:57
onto a tool palette.
03:02
Now, if I wanna bring in
03:06
the contents of that drawing, I can simply left click on it
03:11
and now I can insert it wherever I want.
00:03
Tool
00:04
pellets and AUTOCAD provide a way for users to
00:07
access a variety of content quickly and easily.
00:11
They also provide a way for organizations to share this content
00:15
in a network environment,
00:17
allowing the content to be updated and pushed out to the users. In
00:22
this example, I'll create a new palette and then bring content into it.
00:27
But first,
00:28
let's go ahead and open the tool pallet by going to
00:31
the view tab on the ribbon
00:34
over to the pallets panel
00:36
and clicking on tool pallets
00:39
to create a new pallet
00:41
simply right click
00:43
and choose
00:44
new palette.
00:47
The default name appears as new pallet.
00:51
For this example,
00:52
I'm gonna give it a simple name of
00:55
my
00:57
tool palette
01:02
and then you can see
01:04
the tool palette has been created,
01:07
you now essentially have a clean canvas or an empty
01:11
plate to be able to add content to this pallet.
01:14
So with that being said, what kind of content can be added to a tool pallet?
01:20
Let's go through some of these. In this example.
01:25
The first thing I'll show is blocks
01:28
I have blocks in this drawing
01:31
that I'd be able to drag and drop onto the pallet.
01:34
One thing to be aware of though
01:37
is
01:38
you can't grab the block by the grip
01:41
and drag it to the pallet. This doesn't work.
01:44
What you have to do
01:46
is left click and hold with your mouse button
01:51
on the block until you can see a gray
01:55
rectangle appear under your cursor.
01:59
Now I'm holding the left mouse button down at this point. Once you see that
02:04
you can go ahead and then drag it onto
02:07
your tool pallet
02:09
and just like that, we now have
02:11
that particular block
02:13
on the tool pallet.
02:15
So any time I want to grab that block, I can just select it from the pallet
02:21
and then drop it into the drawing.
02:24
We can do that with
02:26
any other block that's in the drawing
02:32
quickly and easily from drawing content.
02:36
So what else can we bring into a tool palette?
02:39
We can also bring in complete drawing files.
02:46
If I open
02:48
windows, file explorer
02:50
and I go to our data set,
02:52
I can drag and drop
02:55
an entire drawing file
02:57
onto a tool palette.
03:02
Now, if I wanna bring in
03:06
the contents of that drawing, I can simply left click on it
03:11
and now I can insert it wherever I want.
