Exporting/Importing Toolpalettes

My previous posts have concentrated on enterprise toolpalettes, where you want to share toolpalettes on your network for many users. More recently I have had questions regarding sharing customized toolpalettes between users. You can do this simply by exporting a toolpalette from one AutoCAD workstation (this will generate a .xtp file), and importing the toolpalette on the target workstation.

Here's how you do it...

In AutoCAD, right-click on the blank area of the toolpalettes and select "Customize Palettes..." from the context menu...

In the left-hand pane of the Customize dialog, Right-Click on the palette you want to export and select "Export..." from the context menu...

Save the export file to a suitable location.

Then repeat the above process on the target workstation (where you want to import the toolpalette), selecting "Import..." from the context menu in the Customize dialog, you will then browse to the location of the .xtp file and select "Open" to import.

Comments

[M. Long]

How would you automatate the importing of one or more tool palettes stored on the server into Autocad on multiple pc's over a network? I've tried exporting my tool palettes as part of my exported profile and having that new profile loaded upon re-boot of the pc's with random success, ie. not all the new tool palettes loaded.

[John Benstead]

My recommendation is not to import Toolpalettes onto individual CAD Workstations.
I prefer to use the methods described in my previous articles relating to the Management of Enterprise Toolpalettes and using a Toolpalette swapping facility on a Toolbar defined in the Enterprise CUI.
(Sounds complicated when I put it like that)
Have a look through my previous postings, from "Managing your AutoCAD User Interface" onwards. Their are a series of 4 postings with details on how I manage Toolpalettes on a network for multiple users.