How to navigate to a specific fitting in my duct fitting catalog.

[dtiemeyer]

I have 2 catalogs for Duct Fittings:  Autodesk Duct.apc and 'MyCompany.apc'. In 'Options' > MEP Catalogs, the Autodesk catalog is listed first and mine second., There is a specific part in my catalog that I want to create a Tool Palette button that goes to exactly that part.

When I use the 'DuctFittingAdd' command, none of the Command Line options allow me to navigate to a specific catalog, I can only filter by Shape, Type, Subtype, and a few others.

Is there any way to navigate 1) to a specific catalog, then 2) to a specific part in that catalog - perhaps by GUID or some other way.

The end goal is to create a Tool Palette button for several commonly needed parts that are not able to be placed with auto-routing.

[Keith.Brown · Accepted solution]

You can just insert one of the fittings in to a drawing and then drag and drop the fitting on to a tool palette.   Now whenever you select the tool from the tool palette it will go out and get the correct fitting and insert it into your drawing.