To Create a Structural Column Grid Tool

Use this procedure to create a structural column grid tool and add it to a tool palette. You may want to create your own structural column grid tools if you are placing multiple column grids of a specific style, and they all have the same properties.

1. Open the tool palette on which you want to add a tool.
2. Create the tool:

   If you want to…	Then…
   create a tool from a column grid in the drawing	select the object, and drag it to the tool palette.
   copy a tool in the current tool palette	right-click the tool, and click Copy. Right-click, and click Paste.
   copy a tool from another tool palette	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.
   copy a tool from a tool catalog	click Home tabBuild panelTools drop-downContent 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.

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 column grid 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 column grid shape.
10. Specify the settings for the dimensions of the grid.
11. Click OK.