#ACAD TOOL PALETTE FILE TYPE UPDATE#
If that object is already inserted in your drawing and you update the master, you have to manually insert the new standard and overwrite the one already in the file. That way when a new file is started, everyone will be using the proper text style. If you need to make sure everyone is using the Simplex font instead of Arial, change the text objects in your master file. It is very easy to update the standard and every user on your network. If you do as the tipster suggests, keep the objects the palettes are referencing in one central file. This will help to make sure text has the proper font, size, and other stylings. You can use them to ensure that users are all creating the same type of text in your company. Tool palettes are very easy to generate and then to use. Notes from Cadalyst Tip Patrol: Great tip. "The Palette command icons may be customized also if you want to give your individual text commands more visual distinction." A custom predefined stamp block of text could be another idea. One could also put a block of Mtext with predefined formatting so that titled and numbered notes would be easier to create. The block can then be exploded and the text edited for content. This would allow the text to be placed with reference to another object using the blocks insertion point. "Blocks with a text object in them may be created and placed in the palette having insertion points that differ from those available with text justification alone.
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If a layer other than Use Current is chosen, the layer will be automatically created if necessary upon selection of the palette command. This may be reset to a layer in the current drawing using a drop-down selection. Whatever layer your text is on in the master drawing will be automatically applied as the insertion layer for the text in the palette command. Customize to your liking with a unique name for your command and set other settings such as layer, color, linetype, etc. You will see that the proper command string and text style will already be called out. Once there right click on the new command that you just placed in the palette and choose properties. "To bring the text objects into the palette tab (once you create a blank palette tab) simply drag the text object onto the palette. This drawing must remain in a common search path as a resource for the palette to pull style information from. The Text layout in this case contains text objects with the different styles that I commonly use.
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I've chosen to use a master drawing for my palettes that has named layouts corresponding to the palette tab that uses it. "Palettes can retrieve their information from a common directory or a drawing. I chose to differentiate from the Dims palette tab that I have for dimension styles - another tremendously helpful palette tab. Any name can be used - such as Annotation. "One of the things that has helped me with text insertion into drawings is tool palettes. Shawn Crites uses tool palettes to standardize his text styles.