Use this procedure to create a window tool and add it to a tool palette. You may want to create your own window tools if you are placing multiple windows of specific styles with additional properties that you want to be the same each time you add a window of each type.
For example, you are creating an office floor plan that contains two custom window styles: fixed casement for conference rooms and operable casement for offices. To work efficiently, you can create a window tool for each style. You can then select the appropriate tool to place windows in offices and conference rooms.
You can use any of the following methods to create a window tool:
- Drag a window that has the properties you want to a tool palette.
- Drag a window style from the Style Manager to a tool palette, and then customize the properties of the new tool.
- Copy an existing tool, and then customize the properties of the new tool.
- Drag a tool from a tool catalog in the Content Browser, and then customize the properties of the tool.
- Open the tool palette where you want to create a tool.
- Create the tool:
If you want to… Then… create a tool from a window in the drawing select the object, and drag it to the tool palette. create a tool from a window style in the Style Manager. click 
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Locate the style you want to copy, and drag it to the tool palette. Click OK. copy a tool in the current palette right-click the tool, click Copy, and click Paste. copy a tool from another 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. - Right-click the new tool, and click Properties.
- Enter a name for the tool.
- Click the setting for Description, enter a description of the tool, and click OK.
This description is used as the tool’s tooltip on the tool palette, and to describe the tool if it is stored in a tool catalog.
- Expand Basic, and expand General.
- Enter a description of the tool.
- If you do not want to use the default layer key for windows, select a layer key.
- If you want to override the default layer name for windows, select a layer override.
- Select a window style.
- For Style location, select the drawing file containing the style used for this window, or select Browse and use a standard file selection dialog box to select the file.
- Under Bound Spaces, define if this window tool can be used as a bounding object for associative spaces.
You can select three options here:
- Yes: this window tool can be used as bounding object for associative spaces.
- No: this window tool cannot be used as bounding object for associative spaces.
- By style: this window tool will use the bounding settings from the window style.
- Expand Dimensions.
- Specify a window size:
If you want to… Then… use a standard window size click Standard Sizes, and then select a window size. use a custom window size enter values for Width and Height. - Specify where the window width and height are measured to:
If you want to measure to… Then… the outside of the window frame Select Outside of frame for Measure to. the inside of the window frame Select Inside of frame for Measure to. - Enter a value for Rise, if applicable to the selected style and window type.
- Enter a value for the Opening percent or Swing angle.
Zero indicates a closed window.
Note: Defining the opening percent in display properties overrides this setting on the Tool Properties palette. - Expand Location.
- Specify the position of the window when it is placed in a wall:
If you want to… Then… position the window at a specific distance between the edge of the opening and the end of a wall segment select Offset/Center for Position along wall, and enter a value for Automatic offset. center the window on a wall segment select Offset/Center for Position along wall, and specify a point near the center of the wall segment position the window anywhere along the wall click Position along wall, and select Unconstrained. - Enter a value for the head height.
- Enter a value for the sill height.
- Click OK.