To Add a Tool Palette to a Tool Catalog

Use this procedure to add a tool palette to a tool catalog. You must have write access to the tool catalog in order to add a palette.

You can also drag a tool palette from the AutoCAD Architecture 2026 toolset workspace into a tool catalog. Click the tab of the tool palette to drag it.

1. Click Home tabBuild panelTools drop-downContent Browser.
2. Open the tool catalog in which to add the tool palette.

   To add the palette to a specific category in the catalog, open that category.

   If no graphics appear at the bottom of the left pane, the tool catalog is read-only, and you cannot add a tool palette.

3. Click in the left pane of the Content Browser.
4. In the Tool Palette Properties dialog box, enter a name for the tool palette, and enter any other desired properties:

   If you want to…	Then…
   add a description to be displayed in the tool catalog and queried in catalog search operations	enter a description.
   define terms that will be found during a search of the tool catalog	enter the terms for keywords.
   identify the publisher of the tool palette	enter a publisher.