Creating tool palettes and adding commands and blocks

Each tool palette that you create can contain any combination of tools that either run a command or insert a block, external reference, or image.

To create a new tool palette

   1   Right-click the name of an existing tool palette.

   2   Choose New Palette.

   3   Type the name of the new palette, then press Enter.

To add a command to a tool palette

   1   On a tool palette, right-click an existing command tool and choose Copy.

   2   Right-click the tool area of the desired palette and choose Paste.

   3   Right-click the pasted command and choose Properties to change its settings:

•    Name Enter the name of the command. This name displays in the tool palette.

•    Description Type a one-sentence description of the tool.

•    Command Name Enter the command carried out when the tool is selected, which can contain a macro (one or more commands and their options), such as:
^C^C^CZOOM;E;MSNAPSHOT
For details about special characters used in macros, see Using macros in .cui files.

•    General Select the color, layer, linetype, linetype scale, lineweight, text style, and dimension style to apply when using the command. Choose Use Current to use the current property.

   4   Click OK.

Use a shortcut.
Right-click a tool palette and choose Customize Commands or type quickcui. Then drag and drop commands from the list of commands to the tool palette.

Or, drag an entity (for example, a line) from the drawing to the tool palette, which adds the corresponding entity-creation command (for example, the Line command) to the tool palette.

To add a block, external reference, leader, or image to a tool palette

   1   Save the drawing. For details, see Saving your drawing.

   2   Select an edge of a block, external reference, leader, or image—not the grips or the box surrounding some entities—and drag-and-drop it to the desired tool palette.

   3   In the Tool Palettes pane, right-click the new tool and choose Properties to customize it.

To add a .dwg file as a block to a tool palette

   1   From Windows File Explorer, drag a .dwg file to a tool palette.