Creating A Stair Tool - Autodesk 24108-051400-9000 - AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite 2008 User Manual

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Creating a Stair Tool

Use this procedure to create a stair tool and add it to a tool palette. You may want to create your own stair tools if you
are placing multiple stairs of a specific style and they all have the same property.
1 Open the tool palette on which you want to add a tool.
2 Create the tool:
If you want to
create a tool from a stair in the drawing
create a tool from a stair style in the Style Manager
copy a tool in the current tool palette
copy a tool from another tool palette
copy a tool from a tool catalog
3 Right-click the new tool, and click Properties.
4 Enter a name for the tool.
5 Click the setting for Description, enter a description of the tool, and click OK.
6 Expand Basic, and expand General.
7 Click the setting for Description, enter a description of the stair created from this tool, and click OK.
8 Specify a layer key and any layer key overrides if you do not want to use the layer assignments specified
in the layer key style used in the drawing.
9 Select a stair style.
Then
select the stair, and drag it to the tool palette.
on the Format menu, click Style Manager. Locate the style
you want to copy, and drag it to the tool palette. Click OK
to close the Style Manager.
right-click the tool, and click Copy. Right-click, and click Paste.
open the other tool palette, right-click the tool, and click
Copy. Reopen the palette where you want to add the tool,
right-click, and click Paste.
open the catalog in the Content Browser, and locate the tool
you want to copy. Position the cursor over the i-drop handle,
and drag the tool to the tool palette.
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