samifox Posted February 5, 2011 Posted February 5, 2011 Hi Usually in my work I paste the same objects over and over again, one time its for 40mm wall, and the other time its for 20mm wall, but the objects and annotation are the same. What I do is pasting all object on the drawing workspace , and copy and paste whenever I need them in the drawing, this task requires lots of panning and zooming. lots of pain!!! It would be nice if I could have a toolbar with all my snippets, I just click on the toolbar button and I have it next to my courser. Is there a way to define snippets and reference them as a toolbar set? Sorry if im imagining to much. Thanks Shay Quote
rkent Posted February 5, 2011 Posted February 5, 2011 Use the block command, give it a name, pick an insertion point, pick the objects, ok, do it again. If you want to use these same ones all the time save the drawing with the bits to a location on your hard drive, call it Library file or some such. Now in autocad open the design center, navigate to that file, right click and pick create a new palette, wait...., now you have all those on a tool palette, click and drag to any drawing. If you need more added to your library drawing open it up and make them there or copy them to that file from another. Erase the tool palette, and repeat the above to create a tool palette. Quote
samifox Posted February 6, 2011 Author Posted February 6, 2011 that exactly what i been dreaming for. but, when i drag the block from the left pane to the drawing it disappear to the space, i can find it only with zoom extends. what can be the reason? Thanks SHay Quote
ReMark Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 The reason could be the block's insertion point when it was created. Quote
samifox Posted February 6, 2011 Author Posted February 6, 2011 i made 100 blocks. its fantastic/ but...i didnt understanmd how its saved? is it part of the UI? is it part of the file? Thanks Shay Quote
ReMark Posted February 6, 2011 Posted February 6, 2011 How what is saved? The tool palette? Tool palettes are not part of the drawing file. Quote
rkent Posted February 7, 2011 Posted February 7, 2011 Are all the blocks in a .dwg file? If so then you can use the design center to drag and drop the blocks from there. Or in design center, find the .dwg file with your blocks, right click, use create new tool palette. Then you drag and drop from that tool palette, any drawing you have open the tool palette will work because it is looking at that library drawing of your blocks. Quote
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