Autodesk AutoCAD: Dynamic Blocks and Tool Palettes Tutorials
Tool Palettes - Setting Up / Exercise: Styles on a Palette
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Subtitles of the Movie (Autodesk AutoCAD: Dynamic Blocks and Tool Palettes / Tool Palettes - Setting Up / Exercise: Styles on a Palette)
Our tool palettes don't have to just have blocks on them. You can actually add styles to a tool palette. Let's have a look at that now. Let's go to our View Tab here and go to the Palettes Panel and set up Tool Palettes. I'm going to create a new tool palette now but look. If I click here on this table and right click, can I create a tool palette anywhere on that shortcut menu? No, I can't but what I can do is I can actually take that style of table and make sure it's available to be used again and again on a tool palette. So let's right click on the Title Bar here and select New Palette and what we'll do, we'll call it Styles like so and press Enter. Now, a little trick here with the little tabs here for the palettes. If you right click on a tab and move up, you can move a tab upwards. If you right click on a tab, move down, you can move it downwards. What I'm doing there with the Styles one is right clicking on it and moving it up again so that it's at the top of the list there and I can't miss it. Now, if I click on the table itself here in the drawing, just like with blocks, if I click and hold on a part of the table where there isn't a grip, so I click and I hold and I drag over to the tool palette you might think. No; it's not a left click. Let me show you something here. Make sure you save your drawing first to make sure that all the data is saved. Then click on the Table and then it's a right click for styles. Can you see that? It starts moving if I right click and hold and drag over the palette. And there is my Table. Now, if I right click on that Table and go to Properties here, it'll actually tell me a lot of information about that table. It tells me what table style it's using; Table Style 1. If I just cancel that a moment and go to my Annotate Tab here and just move the tool palette over a little bit so that we can see what we're doing, there is my table there. If I click there and go down to the arrow here, there's my Table Style 1 that it's using as you can see there. So I'll close that now and what I'll do, I'll bring the Tool Palettes Window back over here. So that's a table style. So what we'll do there now is we'll right click, go to Properties. We need to change the name there don't we? Because it's not just a table. It's actually Table S-t-y Table Style 1 and it's using Table Style 1. You'll notice it doesn't take the table style name and drop it into the name of the tool property this time like it does with a block. It is subtly different. So as you can see there, there's my Table Style 1. I'll click on OK and that updates that in the palette for me. Now I've got some text here. It's multiline text. If I click on it like so and select it, without using the grips, if I left click and I drag, I can actually take a text style. Now, notice it's a left click, not a right click like the table. So I release that there. What it does is it actually brings that M Text Command onto the palette. We'll look at that later. I want to remove that so I'm going to right click and I'm going to delete that from my palette. OK to that and remove it. If I click on it again though, then right click and drag and release, it does the same. So as you can see there, a text style has to be found in the Text Styles where they're stored in the folder before you can add it to a palette. What it does is it's like if I draw a line for example. If I click on Line here and just draw a line like so, the same process happens. If I click there and then I left click and I drag, it'll actually put the Line Command in my palette, which is not what I want. So I'm going to right click there and Delete and I'm going to say OK to remove that line and I'm going to right click again there and Delete and remove the M Text as well. So what I'll do now is delete that line. I don't need that anymore. So I've got my Table Style there quite happily. I can drag that and bring it in. Things like text styles, multi-leader styles, for example. Let's have a look at a multi-leader quickly. Let's go to Annotate and I'll just draw a quick multi-leader. It doesn't matter which one it is and I'll just drop it there and press Escape there. There's a multi-leader there. I'm not worried about arrowhead size or anything. But if I select that multi-leader and I then right click and I drag, again, look. It brings up the Multi-Leader Command, not the Multi-Leader Style. Or does it? Let's have a look. Right click Properties. This time it is bringing in the Multi-Leader Style so what I can do there is Multi-Leader and then -and it's Standard. So be aware of that. Sometimes it brings the style in, sometimes it brings in the command. So be aware. Certain objects it's a style, certain objects it's a command.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD: Dynamic Blocks and Tool Palettes |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 34055 |
| ISBN: | |
| Release Date: | 2009-11-13 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 85 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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