Experience using the Tool Chest?

Angela Aff

What has been your experience for storing & reusing custom markups in the Tool Chest?

• How do you organize and manage your tool sets?
• What impact has this had on your efficiency?

P.S. Don't forget to check out this month's monthly challenge on Tool Sets!

vfrench

The Tool Chest is a great feature but it would be really helpful if you could move or hide the Comment and Label columns.

As well as the Subject I use the Label regularly. However, I basically never use the Comment column.

But as the minimum width on the Custom column is quite wide and you also don't have the option of hiding it, I end up using a valuable area of my screen in order so I can see what details I have under the Label.

Other than that, being able to easily access the tools that I use most often really is a great time saver.

Matt

Usually I organize in a way that follows my workflow. For designing I have a profile with tools for that purpose, for reviewing, a profile for that and so on. And separate tool chests for legends.

rafaelnunez

I agree, the Tool Chest is a great feature but it does have room for further improvement. I use the Comment column quite often and I'm having one problem that I would love to see fixed in a future update:

I have noticed that if I draw a Line (saved in a tool set with comments and in 'Properties mode') while having the 'Reuse' tool activated, I can't draw more than one line at a time without losing the comments. This problem basically renders the Reuse tool useless.

Duane Gingras

We organize tools sets by Job/Discipline. Any tools that are regularly needed we train people to drag those up to 'My Tools' so they have quick access via the keyboard. Each Discipline has a different use requirement so I just provide them with the base tools and they can re-organize as required. However we focus on using 'My Tools' as the quick access space, modified as required.

RJ Palis

@Angela Aff - Troy Barbu had a really awesome tool chest workflow that I still follow to this day. It'll be cool to see a short clip of that from the last OCBUG meeting.