Working With Tool Palettes - Autodesk 235B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD MEP 2010 User Manual

Isometric view directions and orientations
When creating or editing style-based content, you specify the mode on the Views tab in the Style Definition
dialog. In Orthographic mode, you can assign view blocks to each orthographic view direction. In Isometric
mode, you can assign view blocks to each iso rotation for each isoplane. For more information, see
the Views of a Style
When adding or modifying style-based content, you specify the mode on the Properties palette, Add dialog,
or Modify dialog. In Orthographic mode, you can draft your layout in the top view, add style-based content
in plan view, and then change the view direction to view your layout and style-based content from the
bottom, front, back, left, right, or in 3D. In Isometric mode, you can draft your layout on the different
isoplanes and insert style-based content with the appropriate iso rotation.

Working with Tool Palettes

AutoCAD MEP includes a large inventory of tools organized into both discipline-specific and common tool
palettes. For example, there are several tool palettes containing documentation tools, such as those for
annotation and callouts. There are also numerous tool palettes containing tools for mechanical, electrical,
piping, schematic, and plumbing design. To explore palettes:
Click Home tab
To browse the complete collection of tool and tool palette catalogs provided with the software, click
Home tab
The tool palette set is the collection of tool palettes specified for the current profile in the Tool Palettes File
Locations setting.
1 Click
2 In the Options dialog, click the Files tab.
on page 604.
Build panel Tools drop-down
Build panel Tools drop-down
Options.
Tools .
Content Browser .
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