CADWorx Equipment Palette

Posted on June 21, 2013 by AutoCAD Tips

Here is a quick tip for CADWorx Equipment users.

The user interface for CADWorx Equipment is simply a tool palette and maybe a toolbar…

The common problem is closing the Equipment palette and not knowing how to get it back open as you had it.

Here’s how:

_CADWORXEQUIPMENT <enter>
Note: Use the underscore before the command

If the Equipment palette seems to flash and then disappear, use the command SHOWPALETTES <enter> and the Equipment palette should stay open

~enjoy

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6 Responses to CADWorx Equipment Palette

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Matthew Schwartz says:

October 14, 2014 at 9:21 AM

Thank you so much!!!

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Todd says:

October 29, 2014 at 8:15 AM

Matthew, can you tell me why the Thread Series drop down list in Cadworx 2013 Equipment is not showing up when I try to put bolts in a saddle? I’m guessing that the bolt holes will not appear unless this option is selected.

Thanks, Todd

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Kelly Eugene Kitchens says:

June 22, 2015 at 1:47 PM

Mine wouldn’t even flash. Showpalettes had no effect, though it was definitely turning back on palettes hidden by Hidepalette. After hunting, it turned out the CADWorxEqiupment2012.xml (found in the C:\User\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD Mechanical 2013 – English\R19.0\enu directory) had several negative values in the “orientation”, “dockinfo” and “floatinfo” fields, where other guys in the department did not. I think I could’ve edited the file in an xml editor, but I simply overwrote it with one of their files, (after copying mine to my desktop as insurance,) and presto, my equipment palette was back.

[I know, the .xml file is misspelled, but evidently it slid all the way thru Autodesk’s QC process, and that misspelling is what works.]

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- AutoCAD Tips says:
  
  June 22, 2015 at 8:40 PM
  
  This is awesome!!! Good trouble shooting as well.
  
  Thanks for sharing the info here. now you have a reference point just in case you lose it elsewhere or forget about it. After all, that’s why I started this blog. So when I forget something, I can come here and find it again
  
  Thanks
  ~Greg
  
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- AutoCAD Tips says:
  
  June 22, 2015 at 8:43 PM
  
  Also – if you want to look into or edit an .xml folder, try notepadd++ it is free
  https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
  
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