Palette Switcher

Developed for Autodesk Architectural Desktop, the client requested a way to centralize their Palettes on a common server, organized by Discipline and Project Name. This ensured all collaboration on a project utilized common tools, and that the tools would be available in the future upon revisiting legacy designs

Key Benefits:

• Allowed Server Central Palettes to be organized by Discipline and Project
• Allowed Common Tools during Project Collaboration
• Allowed Palette Switching and Appending
• Allowed Palette Cloning to a new Project Directory with a new Palette Name
• Allowed Preservation of loaded Personal Palettes to afford personnel some personal customizations
• Allowed Palette removal from the interface while preserving the Palette directory

Tool Palette Manager

Allowed the current user to select a Discipline to show a list of Available Palettes. The current user could either Switch to a selected Palette, or Append the selected Palette to their existing Palettes. The current user could also choose to Clone an existing Palette

Tool Palette Clone

Allowed the current user to Clone an existing Palette to a new Palette Directory with a new Palette Name. The current user could choose to Switch to the Cloned Palette, or Append the Cloned Palette to their existing Palettes

Tool Palette Removal

Allowed the current user to remove existing Palettes. The current user could choose multiple Palettes for removal in one pass. The selected Palette(s) were removed from the interface, and the Palette directories were preserved