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- posted 12/20/07 by Ove Cervin Tool Palette
- Hello again,
HAPPY HOLIDAYS to ALL !!!
I found this little thing interesting and I hope you'll like it ;-)
We have our familiar Tool Palettes as seen below.
Open up Design Center.
In Design Center we have this interface. It's an excellent tool to get data in from other drawings.
Select the Tab "Folders" to the upper left.
Browse to a folder where you have a drawing containing a number of Blocks/Symbols. I will use a drawing that has several ground- base map symbols.
Mark the drawing and you get a preview.
If you then, on the left part of the window, mark the sub-item "Blocks", as I have done, you'll see the Blocks in that drawing.
If you want a Block in to your drawing now - just drag-drop it in to the design.
Better - try this!
Select all nice Blocks that you might want to use more frequently. (Use CTRL and Shift to get more at a time)
Right click and select "Create Tool Palette".
This gives you all symbols/Blocks as a separate Tab on the Tool Palette.
Great - isn't it!? ...and of course you can also rename all things in the Tool Palette.
Have a great Christmas, all of you!
Cheers / Ove Cervin