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So we've now created our Tool Palette, so we go to the View Tab and we click on Tool Palettes and there's our mechanism parts in Metric. Now as I said you can move this around by dragging on the title bar, you can dock if necessary and so on. Now what I want to do is I want to just insert the blocks into my drawing from here, from my mechanism parts metric on my Tool Palettes. So let's have a look at using these Tool Palettes. The first thing you always do is you make sure that you save your drawing because you might have existing blocks on the drawing as well, save those for the drawing database. It just saves AutoCAD coming up with an Error Message warning you that you haven't saved your drawing. So what I want to do is insert the left spigot from the Tool Palette. I can either right click like that, Cut, Copy and Paste and so on, I can even update the tool image, I can specify an image, it might not be that I want that graphic. But if I go to Properties I can even Edit it. Look I don't even have to say Left Spigot, I can change that to something like L-Spig, it will still maintain the Left Spigot but look, it changes on the palette. So I can right click over that, go to Properties, that's the Central Shaft so that will be just CS and I OK that and then I right click over this one and go to Properties, that's also going to be R Ð Spig, so let's just change that one as well and that gives me a slightly more mechanized look to my palette. But all I do is I left click and I drag, there's my block and there we are. As if I was taking it from design Center in the previous exercises. I then bring my Central Shaft in, again it uses the Insertion Point of the block. So if I just pan a little bit now and drag this one to that mid point snap there I've inserted the blocks in the drawing. Now the good thing as well as if I now go to Design Center, go to my Open Drawings Tab, 1104 using Tool Palettes, there's the drawing, if I click on blocks its even put those blocks into the drawing. So I can check that using Design Center. Now other things that I can do with my palette are that I can group that now into a new group. At the moment I'm displaying all of my palettes, so if I right click over this here, I can show look, there's all my groups here, Annotation and Design, 3D make, I'm set to all palettes right now, but these are my groups. So if I go to Annotation and Design it only shows me the Annotation and Design Tabs here of my Annotation and Design Palette in that group. So if I now right click here and go to Customize Palettes I can create a new group, now what we do here, we make sure that all of the groups are minimized like this, it's a lot easier to create a new group that way. Now there's lots of these to do, so it's a quick left click on each of the Minus Signs just to make sure that they are all minimized like that. OK? We then right click in here New Group, it adds a New Group, this is going to be mechanical and we'll call it mechanical parts. So there's my new group, press Enter. Now I should have Mechanism Palette here, its here, there's my Mechanism Palette there, notice my mechanical parts here doesn't have a Plus Sign because I can't expand out because I've got no Palettes underneath it. So I click on Mechanism, I then left click and drag under here, when the little black line appears and the Plus Sign appears, release the mouse button, mechanical parts now has its own Mechanism Palette like so. I click on Close now and if I now right click here and go to mechanical parts I only have the one tab, my Mechanism Tab, so I can create groups like this and again these can be project specific, network specific or company specific. So as you can see there are lots of uses to Tool Palettes when you use them.