Hello Brooke,
I am not sure if I understood your question, but I can say:
1) You can change the color palette from [Tools/Color Palettes] choosing among the palettes available;
2) You can create your own palette. You can store it in the same place of the other: "\Support files" folder;
3) You can have it automatically loaded with every new drawing file. Just save a default file with your palette loaded in there;
4) You can attach default materials and textures into your color palette. Save one 'your' default.dmf with the default.aec file;
5) You can save a materials file with every drawing;
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There are more things. Some of them we are requesting from Dave to include in DataCAD 11.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Miguel
Miguel J. Palaoro • Porto Alegre • Brasil
[DataCAD user since V.4 • Languages: English & Português • Scale Type/Unit: Meter-ABNT]