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Add and Use Block Tools

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and use tool palettes in a drawing application. It includes instructions for creating a new palette, adding drawing files, setting properties for blocks, and managing layers. Additionally, it explains how to experiment with palette settings and insert blocks into the drawing area.

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Add and Use Block Tools

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and use tool palettes in a drawing application. It includes instructions for creating a new palette, adding drawing files, setting properties for blocks, and managing layers. Additionally, it explains how to experiment with palette settings and insert blocks into the drawing area.

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Add and Use Block Tools

1. Display the Tool Palettes window by clicking View tab > Palettes panel > Tool Palettes (or
by entering the TOOLPALETTES command).

2. Right-click on any tab, and choose New Palette from the menu. This creates a new tool
palette in which you can add and organize the tools that you frequently use.

3. Name the new palette HYT for this example.


There can be many palettes displayed in the Tool Palettes window. If you don't see the
new HYT palette, try clicking on the stacked palettes area as shown and choose the HYT
palette from the menu.

4. Create a new folder on your desktop called HYT Library.


5. Create two new drawing files, aaa and bbb, with the geometry shown below and save
them to the HYT Library folder.
6. Don't forget to locate the lower-left corner of each rectangle at 0,0 to establish a
reasonable basepoint.
7. Start a new drawing.
8. Open the HYT Library folder in File Explorer. Then, drag the two drawing files onto the
HYT palette.

They are now available for inserting as block references.


Note: For long block names, you can drag the edge of the palette to increase its width.

9. Create two new layers named A-support and B-support with the default colors of orange
and blue.
10. Right-click each of the blocks that you added to the HYT palette and choose Properties
from the menu.
 Enter a description such as Rectangle with X for aaa and Rectangle with
hole for bbb. The descriptions act as tooltips.
 Set the default layer for aaa to A-support and for bbb to B-Support. This
setting ensures that these block references appear on the specified layer
regardless of the current layer.

Note: If the layer that you specify isn't present in the current drawing, the
layer will be created automatically when you insert one of the blocks.
Notice the other options in the dialog box that provide settings for a
scale, a fixed angle, an angle prompt, and so on.
There's no reason why you can't use more than one version of the same
block on your palettes. Here's an example of two versions of the same
block with one rotated 90 degrees.

11. Right-click in any unused area inside the HYT palette. Choose View Options from the
menu.
12. Experiment with the different settings and click OK to see the results.

13. Drag several blocks from the palette into the drawing area.
14. For better precision, click a block in the palette and use the Basepoint option to place
the block references using different basepoints.
15. Repeat the previous step for several additional block insertions.
16. Experiment by adding some other blocks to the palette and changing the default
settings. To delete the HYT palette, right-click any unused area inside the HYT palette and
choose Delete.

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