Quickly swapping My Tools depending on task

I have noticed that My Tools is the only toolset that lets me map the tools to the numbers on my keyboard. The other toolsets don't seem to do this. I have created 1 toolset that is for quantities and another toolset for markups. What I have been doing is dragging the individual tools into My Tools to get their keyboard mapping. Is there a way to be able to quickly swap between toolsets being associated with the keyboard mapping without dragging each tool into My Tools?

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Matt Ruhrer

If you click on the settings wheel in each of the tool sets in your tool chest you will see and option to "Set Numbering". This will allow you to switch the number short cuts to any set, but it can only be set to one set at a time.

David Cutler

Great question @AAK!

Yes, you can set the number hot keys to any tool chest. Simply click on the properties icon and then select "set numbering":

Hope that this helps. 😎

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Matt Ruhrer

David Cutler

Great question @AAK!

Yes, you can set the number hot keys to any tool chest. Simply click on the properties icon and then select "set numbering":

Hope that this helps. 😎

michael miller

Or alternatively, depending on the number of tools you want to be able to access by numbered shortcuts from each toolset: As you can see from @David Cutler's screenshot, the numbered shortcuts can go into the double digits. You could drag one set of tools in, then drag in the second set and you have shortcut access to all tools at once. (You could insert 'dummy' tools after the first set, if you wanted to have the second set start at, e.g., 21. That would also allow for some 'growing room' to add additional numbered shortcuts to the first set in the future.)

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