The old Shelf set is deleted and a new, empty shelf appears in the shelf
area.
Now you can begin adding tools to the new shelf.
4 In the Palette window, find the Curve Edit palette.
5 With the middle mouse button, drag the Fit Curve tool onto the CurveFit
shelf in the control panel.
The tool appears in the shelf.
You could move the entire Curve Edit palette onto the shelf by dragging
its title tab, but you only want a selection of tools from the full palette.
Next, add curve drawing tools to the palette.
Since you will often need to create curves of different degree in technical
surfacing, it would be useful to have customized versions of tools with different
settings.
The shelf allows you to do this. When you drag a tool onto a shelf, the new
copy of the tool keeps the settings it had when it was dropped on the shelf,
independent of the original tool in the palette.
Using this technique, create several versions of the two original curve creation
tools, New curve (edit pts ) and New curve (cvs) .
For each version, assign different settings for the Degree option.
To add versions of the New curve tools to the shelf with different options
1 In the Curves palette, double-click New Curves > New Edit Point
Curve and open the tool’s option window.
2 (Remember that you can also choose New Edit Point Curve from the
palette menu).
The New Edit Point Curve option window appears.
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