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Palette tools

Palette tools - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Palette tools

- [Narrator] Within a palate, there are three main tools that we can add to our new palate that we've created. One is a block tool, and so, we can take a block that's already in a drawing, right click on the block and drag and add it to our palate. We can also use design center, or we can also use Windows Explorer and drag a drawing file onto our palate and create a block tool. Another tool that we can add is the hatch. Similarly, we can select the hatch, right click and drag with our right click to add the hatch tool. A third tool that we can add is a command. We would need to use our customize user interface dialog box to accomplish this. So, we find the command in our list, a command we've created previously was FR5, and we simply drag the command from the command list portion of the customize user interface dialog box, onto our tool palate. Besides just having these tools on the tool palate, we have certain controls for each type of tool. For example, if I right click on our new…

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