Variable thickness wall & tool palette

[payingtoomuch]

Want to have a variable thickness wall assigned to a tool palette. Once assigned to the palette, I'd like to be able to ASSIGN a thickness to the tool. When I select properties for the particular tool it appears that I can do that. However, when I draw the wall it the thickness reverts back to the last used wall tool (or something along those lines).

What I'm trying to do is eliminate all the different wall thicknesses for basic wall types and change the thickness at the project level.... but in reality only have 1 variable wall thickness type.

When I modify the cleanup type & justification in properties the change sticks, but for whatever reason, the thickness (width) does not.

[David_W_Koch · Accepted solution]

I am not seeing that here.  The attached Screencast shows three tools using the out-of-the-box imperial Stud-X Wall Style.  In the tool properties, the top one has the Width property set to use the current drawing default value [double hyphen shows as the property value:  --], the middle one has the Width property set to 6" and the bottom one has the Width property set to 1'-3".

The drawing's default width is 3 5/8".  Using the top tool or the WALLADD command yeilds a 3 5/8" wide Wall.  Using the middle tool results in a 6" wide Wall.  Using the bottom tool creates a 1'-3" wide Wall.  Use of either of the bottom two tools does NOT reset the default width of the drawing.

[payingtoomuch]

Thanks David.

After your response and seeing your video, I took another look.

The problem was there but for only one wall type.

Deleted the wall type and started over with the source wall type and problem went away.

This is what I was after. Thanks!

[payingtoomuch]

FYI- Still working in vanilla on residential project that I had to bail on ACA for the time being. Cranking up on a commercial project that has another offices standards attached but trying to incorporate as much as I can of what I've learned here in the process. I promise to go back and "accept as solution" to a lot of what you (and others) have provided me with.... will just need to be a little patient to allow me to catch-up. Thanks again for getting me up to speed in a hurry. Still some hurdles to get over to get this where I think it wants to be for my purposes, but it seems manageable now.