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Creating a custom toolbox

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Creating a custom toolbox

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- [Instructor] Python scripts can be loaded into toolbox as tools, but they have to be loaded into custom toolboxes. They can't be added into these existing system toolboxes. It's easy to create a custom toolbox, though, to hold your script tools. All you have to do is decide where you want the toolbox to live and what you're going to call it. I'm going to close this Geoprocessing pane, because we can't put any of our scripts in there. Custom toolboxes can be created in any folder or any geodatabase that you have access to. If a new script tool relates to only one project, I'd create it right up here in the default toolbox for the project. But if it's a more generic tool that I want my entire team to use on various projects, I'd create a toolbox to hold it in a folder on my network somewhere and let everyone know where that toolbox is. I'll just go down to my home folder for now and show you how to create a new toolbox. I just right click, New, Toolbox. And all I have to do is give it…

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