2012

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.
NOTE Tool palettes can be used only in the version of the product in which they
were created. For example, you cannot use a tool palette that was created in
AutoCAD LT 2012 in AutoCAD LT 2007.
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.
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