Tool Palettes Question

[neilyj666]

When I right click on the Tool Palettes the following is shown which is as expected but there are Palettes shown e.g. Civil Imperial Subassemblies, Lights, Cameras that I am unlikely to ever need and there are Palettes that I use frequently that are buried behind a few more clicks

Is there a way to organise what is shown here so my most used palettes are visible all the time?

[rl_jackson · Accepted solution]

If you select the gear to the upper left bottom, there is a Customize Pallets. This is very similar to make edits with the CUI interface.

[Joe-Bouza]

Good question

[Joe-Bouza]

Good answer.

the gear is on the fly out list?

Im over looking it

[neilyj666]

Thanks - hiding in plain sight...!!!

Palettes rearranged into a more user friendly order; only taken from the 2011 release for me to do this...🤣

[Joe-Bouza]

@neilyj666  & @rl_jackson 

how do you change the order and what is listed?

[neilyj666]

@Joe-Bouza click the top gear (or right click in the grey bar where the Civil Imperial Assemblies is showing) to get to the Customize Palettes menu, Select it and then drag the Palette Groups (right hand side of the dialog) to the preferred order. Right click in the palette Group to delete/rename and right click a palette (in the Palette Group side to remove it)

Create a new palette group (or amend an existing one) and then drag palettes from the left to the right as required - very similar to CUI modification

[brian.strandberg]

I'm going to present another option.  Rather than customizing palette groups, we put this statement in our CUI.  When someone needs certain functionality, they can use this function in our CUI.

This will set the path to a folder with a particular set of tools.  I really like how this is repeatable, when someone uses this function, everyone will get the same setup.

(progn (command "*_TOOLPALETTEPATH" "J:/CAD/CAD_ADMIN/Palettes/Civil")(command "toolpalettes"))

[neilyj666]

Can you provide some more info about this approach - look useful

[Joe-Bouza]

Easy enough. Thanks

[rl_jackson]

@brian.strandberg 

Does that change the path in the OPtions for Tool Palettes File location, or does it append it.

[brian.strandberg]

The way I have it setup there changes the path which is probably easier for us.  You can see the example from the CUI below, I have had to redact several company names we work with.

Each of these include 5-10 palettes.  The disadvantage it is doesn't save any palette customization, but with around 5 palettes that is typically not an issue.  Where it does become an issue is Civil 3d saves its metric and imperial palettes in the same folder.  So if you use this approach to reset back to the default Civil 3d palettes, you get both.  We work around that by having a folder with just Imperial palates.