From the course: AutoCAD: Tool Palettes
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Checking description on the tool palette - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Tool Palettes
Checking description on the tool palette
- [Instructor] So we're staying in the 08_Developing_Part2.dwg file, and we're developing our tool palette in the Part 2 Chapter. So what we're going to look at now is checking our description of our block on our newly created tool palette. Now the description again can be found on the block on the palette. So you hover over it, right-click, and go to Properties. And the description field is here. The name of the block is Door- 900 millimeters. Now the block name itself will never, ever change because that's coming from your source drawing. However, you can change the description and the name to suit on your palette. So Door - 900 millimeters, yeah that's OK. The actual name is fine, but the description might need to be highlighted there. So what we're going to do, we're going to put a description in, so it's going to be a metric door, and then you might put something like a dash, or perhaps a colon, anything like that. And then you might put material is wood, let's say, and you might…
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