Use magenta as it color, and lineweight 0. Now we can pretend our previous file that has our wall, column, and door has been save at appropriate place. If you want to put it on server, do it before you start placing tools to your palettes.
Let’s say it this way: That file is your library, and clicking a tool in tool palettes will load that block. But if you intend to insert blocks to your palettes, don’t loose your file. Adding more AutoCAD objectsīefore adding objects to our palette, let’s discuss about objects, blocks, and file locations.įor AutoCAD objects like lines, dimension, hatches, you don’t need to keep your file. If it’s not, drag it and drop under Architectural group.Ĭlose this dialog box. Your new palette should’ve already been placed here. Find Architectural group on the right column. Rename it to something like ‘My Architectural Objects’. Right click on left column, then select new palette from context menu. Architectural group still only have one palette. On the right column, we can see how we group our palettes. The left column, consist all the palettes available. You will see dialog box like below opened. Select Customize Palettes from context menu. By default, this sample group only have one palette in it. Select architecture to activate that group. You will see a list of palettes group on your context menu. You can also use it for other AutoCAD tools like dimension, lines, etc.
Simply 2 clicks: activate, and click on boundary. We don’t have to activate hatch, find the pattern type, or make adjustment to hatch scale.
Take a look at this example, I use 2 icons (image below) to manage same pattern, but different scale. That’s what I love about tool palettes: simple but powerful. You can also manage lines with different line type, line scale, etc dimension with different dimension styles, hatches with different scales, etc. You can access your blocks quickly, without having to use insert tool, find where your blocks are. This is a great way to you who want to customize your own workspace without a lot of work. If you see the palettes that are included with AutoCAD installation, you will see a collection of AutoCAD blocks, hatches, and other tools. Tool palettes are used to manage blocks, hatches, and other custom tools. Later, we will use palette to access the reusable contents when we draw. We will place every dynamic blocks we’ve created there in this step. It is a very easy way to manage (and create) your reusable content. Autodesk has introduced palette in AutoCAD since a long time ago.