AutoCAD – Tool Palettes with Shaun Bryant

On May 19, 2021

In 2D Drawing , 3D Drawing , Architecture , AutoCAD , Lynda , Tool Palettes

Release date:2016, November

Author:Shaun Bryant

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

What could make AutoCAD even more flexible and powerful? The answer lies in a humble feature: tool palettes. AutoCAD tool palettes put the commands you need at your fingertips, and they are easy to customize and share. In this course, Shaun Bryant shows you how. Learn how to use AutoCAD DesignCenter to create new tool palettes and insert blocks, styles, hatches, and even DWG files on palettes. Find out how to build palette groups and import and export palettes for sharing. To close, Shaun walks through a three-part workflow for developing a tool palette from scratch, getting you to a point where you can customize tool palettes on your own, and work more quickly and productively on the world’s most well-known CAD platform.
Topics include:
Using tool palettes
Using AutoCAD DesignCenter
Finding and inserting blocks
Creating tool palettes from DesignCenter
Setting up tool palettes with styles, hatches, and DWGs
Adding blocks and groups
Importing and exporting tool palettes

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01 – Welcome
02 – What you should know before watching this course
03 – Using the exercise files
04 – The AutoCAD tool palettes explained
05 – Using a tool palette
06 – Using AutoCAD DesignCenter
07 – Using DesignCenter
08 – Finding blocks with DesignCenter
09 – Insertion scale
10 – Inserting blocks
11 – Creating tool palettes from DesignCenter
12 – Options
13 – Putting blocks on a palette
14 – Putting styles on a palette
15 – Putting hatches on a palette
16 – Putting DWGs on a palette
17 – Creating a new block palette
19 – Setting palette properties
20 – Creating a new palette group
21 – Exporting a tool palette
22 – Importing a tool palette
23 – Exporting a palette group
24 – Palettes and paths
25 – Sharing palettes
26 – Flyout tools
27 – Modifying command tools
28 – Locking tool palette content
29 – Creating a basic dynamic block
30 – Finding the block in DesignCenter
31 – Creating a new tool palette
32 – Setting palette properties
33 – Changing the look of your tool palette
34 – Checking scaling of the block
35 – Checking description on the tool palette
36 – Inserting the block from the tool palette
37 – Creating a palette group for the block
38 – Exporting the tool palette
39 – Importing the tool palette
40 – Next steps