The assembly will retain whatever parameters you change, which means you will not have to change them each time. You can also right click on the assembly from the Tool Palette, go to Properties and manipulate the parameters if need be.
Once the drawing is saved, the drag and drop will be successful and you will have the desired assembly in your Tool Palette to retrieve whenever you like.Īs you can see, the assembly shows up in the Tool Palette and all you have to do is click on it and it brings in the full assembly. If it doesn’t respond SAVE the Drawing and try again. Select one block at a time (not on a grip) and drag it into the Palette. Note: The program will prompt you to save the drawing before it will let you drop it into the palette. Pick Hold Drag Drop: With the Drawing File open that contains the block (s) you want to add into a Palette with the Blocks inserted and visible on the screen. The subassemblies will come with it automatically. You must select ONLY the assembly marker to drag and drop into palette. From there you can just drag your command from the CUI dialog, to your Tool. Add a new Palette to the 3D Piping Tool Palette. Note: You must realize that you CANNOT select the whole assembly. The lower left corner of the CUI command has all of the standard AutoCAD commands. Start a new non-project drawing and insert the wblock assembly then save and close the drawing. Then from the pop-up window, right-click on a blank space under the Palettes section, then select New Palette.
Alternatively, you can enter customize in the command line. From the pop-up menu, select New Palette. Once you have created a new palette, it’s as simple as dragging and dropping the custom assembly into the new palette. Hover your pointing device to a blank space on any tool palette, then press the right button.
You can name the Palette anything you like as shown below: To do this, first you must right click on one the existing tabs and select New Palette: I recommend first you create a personal tab on the Tool Palette.
His background is in graphics with an Applied Sciences degree and ten years manufacturing experience drafting, as well as technical illustration, image editing, and even patent drafting.I have received a lot of calls regarding how to save a custom assembly to the Tool Palette for later retrieval. Technical Support Specialist, ManufacturingBob Felton has been supporting Autodesk products for over 23 years including core AutoCAD, P&ID, Plant 3D, AutoCAD for Mac, AutoCAD Mechanical, and Vault. This creates a New Folder with the name of the Tool Palette. Special thanks to Adam LeRoy and Jay Siebert for the research and confirmation for Solution 2. In the Export Palette dialog box, specify a file name and location and then pick Save. But when AutoCAD was listed first, then it works. Solution 2) It was noticed that the order of the support file search paths for the Tool Palettes mattered. If the Faro link is above the AutoCAD link, then AutoCAD won't retain any new palette tools. A reinstall source for As-Built for AutoCAD 2020 was not found and was therefore not tested. learn how to create our own tool palette and then save our custom blocks on these palettes. Find out how to build palette groups and import and export. (This was not tested).īelow are the 9 partial customization groups that were loaded by 'As-Built for AutoCAD 2020.1'Īlso, the installed version 'As-Built 2020.1' was not identified as being installed according to the third image above that pops up at startup. The tool palette is another great source of AutoCAD blocks. Learn how to use AutoCAD DesignCenter to create new tool palettes and insert blocks, styles, hatches, and even DWG files on palettes. After uninstalling the As-Built add-in, the custom tool palettes were retained between sessions of Plant 3D.Īlternatively, it may be possible to unload the following partial customization groups by running the command KUBT_SELECT_KUBIT_BOX_VERSION from the Plant 3D command line.
Solution 1) To resolve this error, As-Built for AutoCAD 2020.1 can be uninstalled from the Programs and Features in the Windows Control Panel.
This issue did not occur in Plant 3D 2019 on the same machine that did not have As-Built for AutoCAD loaded.
The root cause for the problem was suspected to be that the Faro add-in for AutoCAD, identified as 'As-Built for AutoCAD 2020' was not installed successfully. Permissions were also checked and found to be correct. When you close Plant 3D and re-open it later, the added tool palettes are missing.Īlso, at the next startup of Plant 3D the Command line shows ' Failed to get PaletteSet!'įurther, another dialog box pops up that ' A new As-Built for AutoCad version was found'.Īfter testing a clean uninstall/reinstall of Plant 3D 2020, the problem remained. You have added a new tool palette group with one or more palettes in AutoCAD Plant 3D 2020 (might also affect earlier and later Plant 3D releases and also vanilla AutoCAD installations).