Exercise 4: Installing a Tool Catalog

In this exercise, you will add an assembly tool catalog to your personal Content Browser catalog library.

Before you install the tool catalog, you must remove the existing one that you created earlier. This will enable you to see how users would install a tool catalog that you created.

This exercise continues from Exercise 3: Publishing a Tool Catalog.

Delete the existing catalog from your Content Browser library

1. In the Autodesk Content Browser 2016 window, right-click the Residential Assemblies (Tutorial) catalog. Click Remove ‘Residential Assemblies (Tutorial)’ From Library.
2. In the Delete Catalog dialog box, click Yes.

Install the tool catalog

1. In the Autodesk Content Browser 2016 window, click .
2. In the Add Catalog dialog box, select Add An Existing Catalog Or Web Site. Click Browse.
3. In the Browse For Catalog Files dialog box, My Civil 3D Tutorial Data folder. Select Residential Assemblies (Tutorial).atc. Click Open.
4. In the Add Catalog dialog box, click OK.

   A copy of the tool catalog is created in your personal catalog library.

5. Close Assembly-3a.dwg.

To continue this tutorial, go to Exercise 5: Moving Assemblies from a Tool Catalog to a Tool Palette or Drawing.