Additionally you can tie the block scale to Auxiliary options Dimscale or Plot scale, meaning the block can scale accordingly to the active plot scale or dimension scale. With blocks you can adjust the insertion scale, rotation, and whether it should be exploded. Right-click on any tool in the Tool Palette and select properties. Once the block is added to the tool palette comes the fun part. One location – no worries about it disappearing. What I typically do is set up a “Tool Palettes Blocks” drawing and add all my blocks to it… and then use this drawing to build my blocks. Its a good idea to either use a template drawing for blocks or a drawing just for blocks. This means that if this drawing is moved, renamed, or deleted the block link in the palette will stop functioning. The most important thing to remember is that the drawing the block is dragged-and-dropped from becomes the source drawing for the block insertion from the tool palette. Click and drag (not on a grip point) the object onto the palette dropping it in the desired location. To add an object to the palette (say a block or a line) select the object in the drawing area so that grips are activated on the object. To create a new palette right click anywhere on the palette bar that runs down the side of the palette, select New Palette. Palette Groups collect tabs into groups so that you can quickly enable or hide various groups (combinations) of palettes. You can have as many tabs (palettes) as you want, which provides the ability to categorize your content. The Tool Palette is a standard AutoCAD palette in that it can be docked, anchored, resized, and auto-hid. Tool Palettes are like having everything and the kitchen sink! Which reminds me, when will the rest of the world get onto the robertson bit?ĪutoCAD Tool Palettes are the same idea in that it can contain whatever content you want… blocks, images, xrefs, and any command. My toolbox has a hammer, tape measure, crowbar, various screw drivers, wrenches, a flash light, and a completely random collection of nuts, bolts, screws, and washers. Tool Palettes can be thought of your own toolbox, which if you are like me has a collection of many things. Photo taken by Florian Richter Tool Palettes In the last post in this series we explored methods of sharing blocks to other drawings ( WBLOCK & Sharing Blocks to Other Drawings), so lets continue this theme with additional methods and also an Autodesk repository of pre-built content.

How to create tool palette in autocad