Finding 3D Blocks / Exporting Tool Palettes
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You can also export tool palettes to other people. It's very easy to do. What you do is you go over here to the Title Bar of the palette again, right click and go to Customize Palettes. And what we can do here, as you can see, there's our Palette Listing there. We can also have Palette Groups you'll notice as well. We'll look at those in a second but if I right click on Blocks there, I can actually export the palette and it'll go out as an Exported Tool Palette, and XTP. And I can save that anywhere on my machine; locally, on my network, I can e-mail it to somebody if I need to. As long as you send the drawing with the blocks that are linked to the palette as well, you will be fine. I'll just cancel that for the moment and obviously I talked about groups here as well. You can export palette groups too. Now, my blocks aren't actually in a group yet so let's just minimize all of those and what I'm going to do is create a new group. So if I scroll down, just make sure they're all minimized like that and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to right click and I want a New Group like so. Now, that's ended up there. That doesn't matter. What we can do, we'll just call that Content for example and I can actually drag that group now, click and drag and just make sure it goes right to the top there. And there's my Content Group there. Now, what I can do is I can click and drag on blocks here and drag that and insert it in my Content Group like that. Now, all that means is I can actually send somebody that Palette Group by right clicking and export if I need to and that goes as an XPG, an Exported Palette Group. But the palette groups themselves, if I close this now and right click on this little icon at the bottom of the Title Bar on the Tool Palettes, if I look, there's my Content Listing there. What it shows me is the one tab, the one palette within that group. I can add more palettes to that group and there'll be more tabs. If I right click here again and go to All Palettes again, all the tabs appear on the Tool Palette like before. So exporting tool palettes and groups is useful for content reuse and for other people working on the same projects as you. So other people might be working on this architectural design and it allows them to utilize the same blocks, the same content that you're using.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD 2011 for Architects |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 34134 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-33-X |
| Release Date: | 2010-06-22 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 109 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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