Making your own tool palettes - Part III

Once you have your palette(s) set the way you want them, you may want to be nice and share them with others. This will require and Export from you and an Import to them. But first you may want to combine them into a Group.

Right-Click on the tool palette and pick Customize Palettes... This will bring up a two-columned dialog box. On the left are the palettes in your AutoCAD - Note this is not a per-drawing thing - you only have ONE set of tool palettes. On the right you can right-click and pick New Group. Name this Group.

Now drag the palettes you want from the left into the right. Once this is done, right-click on the Group you created (or on the left right-click on just one palette if that is all you want to export) and pick Export. Give your Group a name and location you can later find. Copy this file to a network location or somewhere on another users computer. The file extension will be .xtp if you Exported a palette and .xtg if you Exported a Group.

To place the palettes on another computer, bring up the tool palette on their computer (CTRL+3) and pick Customize Palettes... and pick Import. Now right-click on the left or right depending on whether you are Importing a palette or a Group of palettes.

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As a further note: If you want to change the properties of more than one block you dragged to a tool palette, hold down the CTRL key and select each block to change, then right click and pick properties