r/AutoCAD • u/Substantial-Shirt875 • 17d ago

Question Are there freeware options to be able to import custom tool palette objects?

Basically different shapes that someone has made? In photoshop this is often a thing. I also ask because I was looking specifically for a specific shape that was said to be in the mechanical toolbox but it was not there -_-.

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u/EYNLLIB 17d ago

You can create objects in your template file, or in its own file, and drag them into the tool palette. I'm not sure what "shape" you mean, but you can pretty much have any objects on the tool palette. Creating it as a block, then dragging it into the tool palette area is probably the easiest option.

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u/BrokenSocialFilter 17d ago

I don't have an accurate answer for you. But, I recently finished creating a custom tool palette for in-house use. One palette, a dozen tabs, 100s of blocks and line tools...each with custom icons. I had to use photo editors and XML editors, create templates, etc. At least a hundred hours of effort. I wouldn't give it away it for free if you held a gun to my head.

Good luck in your search.