The Trinity Block Library Palette

All block libraries are accessible from the Trinity Block Libraries palette. At any time, you can insert Blocks into your drawing.

From the Trinity Block Library palette, you can:

• Access the Block Library Manager
• Display Blocks from a specified block library
• Insert Blocks from the current block library into the active drawing
• Delete Blocks from the current block library
• Search a Block in the current block library
• Control the display of Blocks in the Trinity Block Library palette.

Use the BlockLibrary command to display the Trinity Block Libraries palette.

Toolbar

Use the buttons on the toolbar at the top of the Trinity Block Library palette to access and use Blocks from your block libraries.

• Block library drop-down list: Displays available block libraries.
• Insert : Lets you insert the specified Block in the graphics area.
• Delete : Deletes the specified Block.
• Open block library : Opens the Block Library Manager.
• Displays a file selection dialog box for choosing a drawing file or one of its Block definitions to insert into the current drawing as a Block.
• Display options : Click the arrow to select one of these display modes:
  • Display thumbnails and captions
  • Display only thumbnails

  The Sort by option lets you display the Blocks in an ascending or descending order according to the drawing name.

• Refresh : Refreshes the list of available block libraries and the gallery. For example, if new Blocks were added externally to the current block library, they will be displayed in the gallery.

Search filed

Lets you filter the Blocks displayed in the gallery by specifying a part of their name. When you are typing a string, the gallery filters the Blocks from the specified block library and displays only Blocks that contain the specified sequence of characters in their name. Filtering based on the Block name is always case insensitive.

To remove the active filter, click Close  on the right side of the search field.

Block gallery

Displays thumbnails for each Block from the block library. Thumbnails update when you modify and save the Block. Optionally, you can display captions for thumbnails.

Right-clicking a thumbnail displays a menu with the following options:

• Insert. Inserts the specified Block as if you used the InsertBlock command.
• Delete. Deletes the specified Block from the block library.

To insert a Block from the Trinity Block Library palette:

• Do one of the following:
  • Drag a Block into the active drawing.
  • Right-click a Block and select Insert from the context menu.

Access

Command: BlockLibrary

Menu: Tools > Trinity Block Library

Ribbon: Insert > Palettes > Trinity Block Library