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Professional CAD/CAM tools built on Inventor and AutoCAD
Transcript
00:02
This is the default Alias workspace.
00:05
Up at the top, we've got a fairly standard menu bar
00:08
and here on Preferences, for example, you can choose your screen colors.
00:12
So you might prefer a dark gray or a dark blue.
00:17
I'm going to start by doing a File > Open
00:19
and bring in a model,
00:21
and I've got an empty model stage already
00:24
so I'm gonna say delete that and open my new one.
00:27
And if this construction options question pops up,
00:30
it's not really important until you start doing some serious modeling.
00:33
So I'm just going to take the default answer which is highlighted in blue.
00:38
Over here with Diagnostic Shade, I can give the model a block color
00:42
Or do some surface analysis
00:45
Or I can use one of these viz shaders to show the materials on the model.
00:50
Above that there's a small customizable tool shelf.
00:54
So for example, I use the Information Window a lot,
00:57
I can drag that onto the shelf with the middle mouse button,
00:60
so I've always got it at hand.
01:02
And at the top in the Control Panel,
01:04
you can manage the structure and the display of your geometry,
01:08
and you have the option to open sections as fly-outs using the right mouse button.
01:14
And these three are just a docked group of tools that I can resize or minimize.
01:21
So over here in the main model window,
01:23
I can zoom in and out using the scroll button on the mouse.
01:27
And if I come up here and click and drag on this ViewCube, I can tumble the view
01:32
and use these view tools.
01:35
And then on the view window title bar,
01:36
I've got this Show menu that I can use to turn off the grid for example.
01:42
And then over here is our main Tool Palette,
01:45
and I can display these tabs as lists or as icons
01:50
and I can change the orientation of the palette,
01:53
and again use the right mouse button for fly-out menus
01:57
and I can choose to keep it floating or dock it
02:00
to any of the borders using the middle mouse button.
02:05
And when I use a palette tool like Revolve here,
02:08
it shows up in this current tool icon
02:10
and instructions for what to do next are given in this prompt line area.
02:15
And below that, we have the layer shortcut bar
02:18
and I can use this to organize the model and turn on and off some geometry layers.
02:25
So this whole layout with any changes or customizations you make
02:29
is saved in this Default Workspace shown down here on the Workspaces bar.
02:35
And optionally you can create additional or alternative
02:37
Workspaces which are simply different tool layouts.
02:41
So on startup, you're given these three as examples to take a look at.
Video transcript
00:02
This is the default Alias workspace.
00:05
Up at the top, we've got a fairly standard menu bar
00:08
and here on Preferences, for example, you can choose your screen colors.
00:12
So you might prefer a dark gray or a dark blue.
00:17
I'm going to start by doing a File > Open
00:19
and bring in a model,
00:21
and I've got an empty model stage already
00:24
so I'm gonna say delete that and open my new one.
00:27
And if this construction options question pops up,
00:30
it's not really important until you start doing some serious modeling.
00:33
So I'm just going to take the default answer which is highlighted in blue.
00:38
Over here with Diagnostic Shade, I can give the model a block color
00:42
Or do some surface analysis
00:45
Or I can use one of these viz shaders to show the materials on the model.
00:50
Above that there's a small customizable tool shelf.
00:54
So for example, I use the Information Window a lot,
00:57
I can drag that onto the shelf with the middle mouse button,
00:60
so I've always got it at hand.
01:02
And at the top in the Control Panel,
01:04
you can manage the structure and the display of your geometry,
01:08
and you have the option to open sections as fly-outs using the right mouse button.
01:14
And these three are just a docked group of tools that I can resize or minimize.
01:21
So over here in the main model window,
01:23
I can zoom in and out using the scroll button on the mouse.
01:27
And if I come up here and click and drag on this ViewCube, I can tumble the view
01:32
and use these view tools.
01:35
And then on the view window title bar,
01:36
I've got this Show menu that I can use to turn off the grid for example.
01:42
And then over here is our main Tool Palette,
01:45
and I can display these tabs as lists or as icons
01:50
and I can change the orientation of the palette,
01:53
and again use the right mouse button for fly-out menus
01:57
and I can choose to keep it floating or dock it
02:00
to any of the borders using the middle mouse button.
02:05
And when I use a palette tool like Revolve here,
02:08
it shows up in this current tool icon
02:10
and instructions for what to do next are given in this prompt line area.
02:15
And below that, we have the layer shortcut bar
02:18
and I can use this to organize the model and turn on and off some geometry layers.
02:25
So this whole layout with any changes or customizations you make
02:29
is saved in this Default Workspace shown down here on the Workspaces bar.
02:35
And optionally you can create additional or alternative
02:37
Workspaces which are simply different tool layouts.
02:41
So on startup, you're given these three as examples to take a look at.
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