Access Methods

 Ribbon: View tab Palettes panel Tool Palettes

 Menu: Tools Palettes Tool Palettes

 Toolbar: Standard

Summary

Use tool palettes to organize blocks, hatches, and custom tools in a tabbed window. Various options and settings are accessible from shortcut menus that display when you right-click different areas of the Tool Palettes window.

List of Options

The following options are displayed.

Add Text

Inserts a text entry box at the cursor location, where you can add a label that helps organize palette contents.

Add Separator

Adds a tool palette separator line at the location of the cursor.

All Palettes

Displays all tool palette tabs in the palette window.

Allow Docking

Toggles the ability to dock or anchor palette windows. A docked window adheres to the side of the application window and causes the drawing area to be resized. Selecting this option also makes Anchor Right and Anchor Left available. Clear this option to undock a docked tool palette.

Anchor Left/ Anchor Right

Attaches the palette to an anchor tab base at the left or right side of the drawing area. An anchored palette rolls open and closed as the cursor moves across it. When an anchored palette is open, its content overlaps the drawing area. An anchored palette cannot be set to stay open.

Auto-hide

A setting that causes a floating window to roll open and closed as the cursor moves across it. When this option is cleared, the full tool palette stays open continuously.

Close

Closes the tool palette window.

Copy

Copies the selected tool to the Clipboard.

Customize Commands

Displays the Customize User Interface Dialog Box.

Customize Palettes

Displays the Customize dialog box.

Cut

Removes the selected tool from the tool palette and places it on the Clipboard.

Delete

Removes the selected tool from the tool palette.

Delete Palette

Removes the current palette.

Dynamic Blocks

Displays the palette tabs containing dynamic blocks.

Move

Changes the cursor to a four-direction arrow.

Move Up

Moves the selected tool palette up one position.

Move Down

Moves the selected tool palette down one position.

New Palette

Creates a new palette. Enter a name or press Enter to use the default name.

Paste

Pastes a tool from the Clipboard to the current tab.

Properties

Displays the Tool Properties dialog box, where you can change the properties of the selected tool.

Rename

Renames the selected tool.

Rename Palette

Renames the current palette.

Samples

Displays the Samples tool palette.

Sort By

Specifies whether palette contents are sorted by name or by type.

Size

Changes the cursor to a four-direction arrow.

Transparency

Displays the Transparency dialog box.

View Options

Displays the View Options dialog box, where you can control how tools are displayed.