stevsmith Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 Hold down the ctrl key, Left click on the 1st image. Select all required images. (holding ctrl) Right click and select proporties. This will let you assign multiple items on a specific layer. Hope this helps Quote
Jaelin Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 I just recently started using Tool Palettes and absolutely love them. I use them to insert symbols, hatching, even to work my text. Plus being able to collapse it out of my way makes it even more convenient in my opinion. Quote
stevsmith Posted February 9, 2009 Posted February 9, 2009 And it saves you having to muck about in the design ctr. What you need is at your finger tips. (Only Quicker) Quote
TimZilla Posted February 10, 2009 Author Posted February 10, 2009 And it saves you having to muck about in the design ctr.What you need is at your finger tips. (Only Quicker) Well, I had a program Called Vic Blocks. Which is a program with a lot of pipe fittings, valves, etc.... It was on a pallet and it was horrible. Once you pulled the fitting on the drawing, you had to right click, then go over to rotate, find the center point and rotate it and blah, it sucked a$_hole. I have put 2" to 8" 90's on a Flyout Toolbar, 2" to 8" TEE's on a Flyout and so on. As soon as I click on it, BOOM, im now ready to rotate, I click where I want it and then rotate and click again. I do not know hardly anything about pallets, so If you could tell me how to do this same thing with a pallet I would probably like it as well. Can you use Macro's with it? I have my toolbar set up so when I press a certain button, say, dimension it will put me in the DMNS layer and so on. If all of these same things could be done on a pallet I'm sure it would be nice to save some space. Quote
TimZilla Posted February 10, 2009 Author Posted February 10, 2009 Once you have uploaded them to the tool pallet if you right click on the block you want to drag in select proporties and a new menu will come up.You can set the scale, rotate on insert, set which layer you would like it to come under. I have all my dimensions in the tool pallet and when i insert them it automatically puts them in a dim layer. I just went back to page 2 and got my answer, never read that one. It looks like your talking about the same thing that I am, except it looks like the pallet is a lot easier to set up if you don't know the codes. What ever tips you have to help out I'll probably start one with all of my blocks. Quote
stevsmith Posted February 10, 2009 Posted February 10, 2009 Hopefully this could get you started. i dont know if it has sound. im stereoless at work. but the principle is the same for getting started.. Once the blocks are in the tool pallet. right click on the images as i have previously described in this thread to open up the proporties to promp for rotation, layer etc.etc. Quote
neekcotrack Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 I use palletes to auto scale blocks. The one I like is when you insert your block with attributes no matter what angle you have your block the text will be at 0 (see picture 1). The other ones I have is if your block has attribute text it will rotate text to never be upsite down. (See picture 2) Quote
michaeloureiro Posted February 17, 2009 Posted February 17, 2009 I use palletes to auto scale blocks. The one I like is when you insert your block with attributes no matter what angle you have your block the text will be at 0 (see picture 1). The other ones I have is if your block has attribute text it will rotate text to never be upsite down. (See picture 2) can you do that in cad 2007 or is that a cad09 thing? Quote
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