In this class, you will see how to take advantage of the AutoCAD Plant 3D and AutoCAD P&ID toolsets to add and improve your existing AutoCAD software workflow. AutoCAD Plant 3D software and AutoCAD P&ID software are some of the toolsets that are now available. The same can be done with text, multileaders, hatch patterns, or anything. AutoCAD 2019 software has added specialized toolsets to subscribed users of AutoCAD 2019. Tool palettes are for more things than just blocks add dimensions with specific styles to a tool palette. It can also be set to draw circles at certain radii. Draw an object in AutoCAD, select it, and drag it onto a tool palette a command drawing that object on that specific layer was created. They can also be saved, exported, imported, and shared. They are easy to create, set up, and customize. Then on the display option on the top, select the option Display Layout and Model tabs and then click Ok as shown below: 9. Click on the Options button at the bottom. Automate tasks such as comparing drawings, addings blocks, creating schedules, and more. We need to click on the AutoCAD option displayed on the top left corner of the screen, shown as. Draft, annotate, and design 2D geometry and 3D models with solids, surfaces, and mesh objects. Notes from Cadalyst Tip Patrol: Tool palettes can be very useful. AutoCAD ® is computer-aided design (CAD) software that architects, engineers, and construction professionals rely on to create precise 2D and 3D drawings. "I then duplicated the tool within the tool palette and changed the properties till it looked like the image below." Now I approached the command string of the feature that originally was "^c^c_mline" and changed it to "^c^c_mline style wall_ext_25 " Since the geometry was created in a specified layer, that is actually predefined in the command that was created in the tool palette. "After the style was appropriately defined, I moved to the assigned layer, created a multiline object, and dragged it into a tool palette where I altered the properties just a bit. All corners are cleaned up neatly and when the procedure finishes, a solid hatch-like fill appears as well. It comes with the Ferrule and gaskets which are also custom python script components. Now when my customer draws, he creates a pair of parallel lines, with caps at the end if free-standing. This catalog includes the 3 most common types of clamps: 2-segments, 3-segments, high-pressure clamp and coupling. I created two mline styles with different layers and fills as a substitute for hatching. This command is many AutoCAD versions old, but when combined with a specific tool palette I was able to satisfy my customers' needs. "I'm not a nostalgic guy, yet sometimes I remember that some AutoCAD features are older than several of my clients - for instance, mline (for multiline). Tipster Danny Korem shows us how he used AutoCAD tool palettes to customize a multiline style for a client.