Symbol Manager vs. Tool Palette

[ssamaniego]

AUTOCAD LAND DESKTOP 2006 ISSUE:
My company has put together custom tool palettes and a custom symbol manager. When I insert the blocks from the symbol manager everything works fine but when I insert the blocks from the tool palettes the block inserts at 1/12 scale. I talked with CAD Masters and they have told me to use the command INSUNITS to eliminate this problem but I would need to do this with every drawing each time I open it. Does anyone know of a way to have both custom block libraries work together, the same way?

thanks!

[Anonymous]

ssamaniego said the following on 1/17/2006 3:27 PM:
> AUTOCAD LAND DESKTOP 2006 ISSUE: My company has put together custom
> tool palettes and a custom symbol manager. When I insert the blocks
> from the symbol manager everything works fine but when I insert the
> blocks from the tool palettes the block inserts at 1/12 scale. I
> talked with CAD Masters and they have told me to use the command
> INSUNITS to eliminate this problem but I would need to do this with
> every drawing each time I open it. Does anyone know of a way to have
> both custom block libraries work together, the same way?
>
> thanks!

Make sure INSUNITS = 0, and life is good.

Set it to 0 in your template drawing(s) to start with.

Add this to your "acaddoc.lsp" also:
(if (not (zerop (getvar "insunits")))(setvar "insunits" 0))

There should be no need to change all your existing blocks.


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R.K. McSwain
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com

[ssamaniego]

I have set my INSUNITS to zero.

The symbol manager works in both model and paper space.

The tool palette will only work in modelspace. The blocks inserted in paperspace come in at the drawing scale (1"=40') the blocks will be scaled up x40.

The symbol manager operates correctly in both model and paper. I have been told that tool palettes is strictly an AutoCAD option and that LDT was not built for tool palettes.

For now my company has decided to not utilize the tool palettes until we can come up with a way for both to work as they did in 2005LDT.

Thank you for your help, the lisp routine works great.