Topic: Tool Palettes

[jonesy]

Hi all

Now I may be VERY behind here, but I am just getting into the tool palettes. Are there any major difficulties with them. Until yesterday I had previously only used them as a block library.

Scenario.
We have custom styles for road markings. Each linestyle is currently loaded and used from a local office pull-down, all the parameters are set (such as layer and width etc) I was trying to figure out a cleaner/quicker way of doing it, and making sure the layers and linetypes are always drawn on the correct layers, and then reset after. I figured out with very little head-scratching how this is done with tool palettes (look ma, no coding questions asked )

This looks like just the thing I am looking for. However... before I get too far down the road of creating and organising all the information we use, I would like to know if people are experiencing any problems with having coded "stuff" in the tool palettes, or is this what they were designed for?

Thanks in advance
Tracey

[daron]

They're great. When they first came out, they were pretty buggy, but I think they have mostly been fixed. One thing you might do, is move an item onto one, right-click it and hit properties. In there you will see some things that should give you more ideas of what can be accomplished with TP's. I use the insert to dimscale option on a few blocks, especially annotation blocks.