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â– Tool description (also used as the tooltip and as the tool description when
the tool is copied to a tool catalog in the Content Browser)
â– Description of objects inserted with this tool
â– Layer key of objects inserted with this tool
â– Layer overrides of objects inserted with this tool
â– Object style (if the tool is style-based)
â– Location of object style (if the tool is style-based)
In addition, you can define object-specific properties that apply to this tool
type. For example, if you create a wall tool, you can set the wall cleanup,
width, height, baseline settings, and the roof/floor lines of walls that are
inserted with this tool.
Style Location
Object styles are located in Styles drawings. To assign a style to an object tool,
you can either point to a style in the current drawing or to a style in an external
drawing. For more information, see Styles and Support Files on page 134.
Tool Types
Tools in AutoCAD Architecture fall into 3 categories.
DescriptionTool Category
An object tool inserts a design object—such
as a wall or a window assembly—into a
Object tools
drawing. An object tool has a specific style
and specific object properties: for example,
a wall tool might be called Brick-4 Brick-4.
Command tools are a graphical represent-
ation of an object-related command. For
Command tools
example, the Browse Property Data tool
opens a dialog box for browsing the prop-
erty data of all objects in a drawing; the
Renumber Data tool renumbers property
data in selected property sets by increment
or by a user-defined number. You can also
create your own tools for each command.
An AutoCAD general-purpose command
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