Tip for Week 8/1/05

 
Tool palettes, what are those good for?

Tool palettes can be customized very, very easily,  just like toolbars can.  A simple suggestion is to drag and drop your favorite PostalCAD tools directly from any PostalCAD toolbar when in the customize mode.  A really nice feature of the tool palettes is that you can also drag and drop any object, yes, any object from your drawing and create a tool for it.

Make sure you create your own palette first, before continuing with the following suggestion.

Open the tool palette by pressing CTRL+3.  Right click on the open tool palette box, picking "new palette" and then name it for yourself.  Now, draw a circle and highlight the grips of that circle, left click and hold the circle, drag to the new palette, and you now have the circle command on the palette!  This works with blocks also.  Play around for a couple of minutes to see all the wonderful things that can be dragged to a palette.  I could go on for an eternity about all the fun things to do with tool palettes, but I'll start with these basics. 

Look forward to more tips and tricks for tool palettes in the coming weeks!