Share tool palettes

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We'll talk about sharing tool pallets in a network environment.

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If we browse out to the default location of where tool pallets are in autocad,

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this is located on the C drive.

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This is important

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and I'll show why

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here in a minute

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first, we want to go into options

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and on the files tab

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down where the tool pallet file location is.

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This is where the default location is for tool pallets on a user C drive.

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If you want to create a network drive

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that has all of this,

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you can change the search path to a network environment.

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For example,

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you drive C

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ad standards tool pallets.

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However, if you wanna maintain the ones that come with autocad out of the box,

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you can add a path.

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The thing to keep in mind for this though

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is that

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you want to make sure that your network path

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gets placed above the local path

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so that the customized tool pallets come in

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from the network and all changes will come in with them.

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So after adding the paths,

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the thing to remember

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is that you will

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copy

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your A TC file

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and your pallets folder.

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And as you can see

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each one of these at TC files matches up with

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a pallet name.

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If this is to be shared in a network environment,

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it should be copied out to the network

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and then these files should be set to read only

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so that only the C ad manager or person in charge

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can modify them.