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Tool Palettes Group
A tool palettes group is a collection of tool palettes. 4 tool palettes groups are
available when you start AutoCAD Architecture: Design, Document, Detailing,
and Visualization. You can add, rename, remove, export, import, and rearrange
tool palettes groups. Tool palettes groups are contained in the tool palettes
set. For more information, see “Organize Tool Palettes” and “Save and Share
Tool Palettes” in the AutoCAD Help.
TIP The quickest way to locate and view an AutoCAD topic referenced in AutoCAD
Architecture Help is to click the Search tab in the Help window, select the Search
titles only option, and then copy and paste or type in the AutoCAD topic name,
and click List Topics.
Tool Palettes
Tool palettes contain collections of tools and represent the individual tabs of
a tool palettes group. A number of tool palettes are available from the AutoCAD
Architecture Sample Palette catalog. You can create new tool palettes in
AutoCAD Architecture or in the Content Browser. Usually you place tools on
tool palettes according to tool type or design phase. For example, you could
place your wall tools on a tool palette called Walls or your preliminary
conceptual tools on a tool palette called Massing Study. When you create a
tool palette in the Content Browser, you can link it to AutoCAD Architecture.
Whenever the tool palette is updated in the Content Browser, the changes
are updated in the tool palette in AutoCAD Architecture too. This is useful for
large projects where consistency of styles and tools is necessary. For more
information, see Working with Tool Palettes from a Central Location on page
90.
Tools
Tools represent the individual objects you can add to a drawing. A tool contains
creation parameters for the object it creates. When you add an object with a
specific tool, the object has the settings you defined in the tool. This eases
the design process and enhances consistency across a project.
For example, you might define a wall tool that contains the style “CMU 8
Furring” and that has automatic cleanup and a baseline offset of 1". Whenever
you add a wall with this tool, the wall has the style CMU 8 Furring, it cleans
up automatically, and it has an offset of 1". For more information, see Tools
on page 93.
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