Learning Curve: Tooling Right Along -- Tool Palettes, Part 26
Sep, 2006 By: Bill Fane A few simple tweaks on your tool
palettes can help you comply with your CAD standards. It was a
beautiful, warm sunny day. Conditions were perfect; the bay was
glassy calm, and no other boats were around. Suddenly a shout
rang out: "Hit it!" Once again Captain LearnCurve was carving a
perfect set of turns on his HO Mach 1 competition water ski. You
definitely need the right tools to do the job properly.
Actually, this was the bad news, because his next Learning Curve
deadline was rapidly approaching, and he really should have been
writing instead of water skiing. Normally he would be desperate
for a topic, but luckily he was smart enough to pick a topic
last month that would take more than one article to cover
properly, so he had a bit of a head start. There was time for
one more run, then on to the writing. Speaking of tools, the
previous Learning Curve introduced tool palettes, which first
appeared in AutoCAD 2004. You lea