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john.vellek
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Sharing Tool Palettes in an office is a great way to share standards. Linetypes, hatch patterns, LISP routines, blocks, etc. can be placed on shared Tool Palettes. Locating them in a single location will make sure that everyone is using the exact same ones which can make drawing and documentation much easier.

 

Create one or more locations on the network to store the Tool Palettes. This location or share can be set to Read-only access for common users so that they are not able to manipulate or change the shared Tool Palettes. I suggest that the shared palettes be built and maintained by a limited team or even an individual for consistency, uniformity, and accountability.

 

I suggest that adding the Tool Palette locations to each user workstation after the default Tool Palette location. This will allow users to create or modify tool palettes on their workstations to suit their personal preferences without affecting others.

 

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To ensure accessibility for all users, the paths must be mapped exactly the same on all workstations.

 

Once the Tool Palette storage locations are built, create the actual palettes using the network locations. Make sure that any blocks that are placed on the palettes are located in an accessible location that won’t vary over time or by user account. If the blocks are moved, then the palette will be rendered useless unless you manually go into each palette and remap the location of the source files. This can be really tedious.

 

Palette groups can exist on the network locations but do not get handed back to the clients automatically.  The actual group file for each palette is stored on each local user profile.

 

Things to Know:

  • Avoid copying tool palette files (ATC) between different product releases. Tool Palettes can only be used in the product release in which they were created.
  • If you import a customized Tool Palette, you must keep the image folder in the same location as the imported XTP file or the icons will not appear in the Tool Palette.

About Sharing Tool Palettes and Tool Palette Groups

About Creating Tool Palettes

To Work With Creating and Modifying Tool Palettes

Commands for Tool Palettes


John Vellek


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