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- posted 08/21/08 by Jack Strongitharm Create your own subassembly toolpalletes (2009)
- Nice little feature of 2009 release is that you can create your own toolpalletes of assemblies and subassemblies.
So you are not a code person, doesn't matter.
How many times do you enter parameters into a subassembly to set width, slopes etc that you use everytime.
Also do you hunt through the palletes searching for the couple that you are using the most?.
Well that we can sort!
In a clean drawing and save it (this is temporary) click on a subassembly and hit return key (for detached)
Place it in the drawing.
On its properties, set all the parameters the way you like
Once you are ready, create a new pallete and then with left mouse button click and hold on the subassembly in the drawing and drag it to the toolpallete.
Once its there you can rename it to something sensible and also specify an image.
If you browse to
On XP
C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D 2009\enu\Tool Catalogs\Road Catalog\Images
On Vista
C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2009\enu\Tool Catalogs\Road Catalog\Images
You can find all the Civil 3D icons
For my UK and Ireland users I have created a simple set and also included kerbs and edgings to British Standards.
These will work better than my old set that I made from polylines.
Hope they are of use.
Click here to download
To install, extract the zip file to a location on your computer and by right clicking on the toolpallete click then on customize palletes
On the left hand side, click on Import and point to the XTP file that extracted from the zip file.
Should save some time and effort on a daily basis.
Jack Strongitharm
User Comments
Thanks for all the feffort - especially the widening posts
Posted 8/21/2008 9:10 AM by dave clarke