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Adding Graphic Primitives to a user toolbox
Once you have created one or more user toolboxes, you can add graphic primitives to them by pressing the Ctrl key on your keyboard and dragging and dropping a graphic primitive from an existing toolbox to a user toolbox:
Figure 16: Press Ctrl and drag and drop a graphic primitive
In the above screenshot, we are dragging the Round Gauge graphic primitive from the Basic Displays toolbox to My_Toolbox. When we release the mouse button to drop the graphic primitive onto the user toolbox, the graphic primitive appears in the user toolbox, and in the Toolboxes organizer:
If you have several user toolboxes, you can move graphic primitives between them simply by dragging and dropping them (without using the Ctrl key).
Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/254352342/PL20250521841123434.amesim_collection.Dashboard/Adding_Graphic_Primitives_to_a_user_toolbox · retrieved 2026-07-17