Tool Palettes are locking them selves up.

[jmarcum212]

Greetings! I have a very annoying issue that I have never had an issue with. Ever since I started creating my own tool palettes, everything behaves as it should. However something seems to change when I go away or reload Autocad. The tool palettes are being locked up and all material I can find is "how to lock" and nothing on "how to unlock" or keep this from happening. Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks in advance!

[ReMark]

Do you have multiple tool palette paths listed under Options > Files tab > Tool Palettes File Locations?

[jmarcum212]

ReMark, I did. I suppose that is a no-no eh? Thank you very much. Still learning the ins and outs of support path behavior. On the same subject matter somewhat I am also trying to figure out what an atc file is exactly and how to make one. Are these better than an exported tool palette? Same function?

[ReMark]

Re: file paths. From what I have read you can only edit the tool palettes in the folder on the top of the list. So if the tool palettes you want to edit are down a folder or two you would have to move that folder to the top of the list.

 

When you export a tool palette an .xtp file is created.

Edited April 22, 2016 by ReMark

[jmarcum212]

 

So if I am understanding you correctly these are the same?

[ReMark]

No they are not the same. I mistakenly typed .atc when I should have typed .xtp. Thank you for catching my error. I'll correct it immediately.

[jmarcum212]

Can you please explain the difference in behavior and how to create .atc file? Thank you.

[Dadgad]

Can you please explain the difference in behavior and how to create .atc file? Thank you.

 

Forget .atc, ReMark said that was a TYPO, stick with file type .xtp and you will do a lot better.

 

.atc is a file type relating to text, and has no relevance in this context.

[jmarcum212]

Got it. Thank you.