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Transcript
00:00
Once you've set your environment to your preferences or to specific workflows,
00:04
you'll want to save it, learn how to create save and restore workspaces.
00:08
In this video.
00:09
After this video,
00:11
you will learn to create a new workspace,
00:13
save a workspace and specify how it saves when changes are made,
00:17
restore a previously saved workspace, add or remove interface,
00:21
access to the workspace tools
00:25
for this video, we'll be using a blank new drawing.
00:28
Of course, the changes we'll make here can be done at any time from your open drawings
00:32
to get started.
00:33
Let's create a drawing file from the new button
00:35
in the start tab and accept the default template.
00:38
In this video.
00:39
We're going to imagine that we've changed the user interface in
00:42
various ways and then save the changes to a new workspace.
00:45
However, to begin,
00:47
we're going to briefly go in reverse and create the new workspace. First,
00:51
the reason I'm doing this is purely for the safety of your current environment.
00:54
There is a possibility that the changes we make will alter your current workspace.
00:59
So by creating a new one, first, we'll have a sandbox if you will to work in
01:03
in the status bar and displayed by default is the workspace tool.
01:07
Its icon is a gear and you'll see that it has a down arrow with it.
01:10
Click either the arrow or the gear.
01:12
You'll get a pop up menu with a separator somewhere near the middle.
01:16
The top part lists the available workspaces.
01:19
Autocad comes with three drafting and annotation,
01:24
The bottom portion of the pop up contains your workspace tools.
01:27
We want to create a new workspace based on the current configuration.
01:31
So click on save current ads,
01:33
you'll get a dialogue that will let you name your new workspace.
01:36
We'll call it my new workspace.
01:38
Click save after naming it, click on the workspace icon again
01:42
and you'll find your newly created workspace in
01:44
the list and check since it's now current
01:47
to switch again. Just click on another workspace. Let's click on 3D basics.
01:52
You'll see the interface change to reflect the tools for that workspace,
01:55
change it back to my new workspace which
01:58
we'll use throughout the remainder of this video.
02:00
Workspaces are usually considered to be task based.
02:03
For instance, you may wear many hats at your firm
02:06
and one day you're designing a 3D model of a piping system.
02:09
And the next you're creating wiring diagrams.
02:12
These two tasks use two totally different sets of tools by using workspaces.
02:17
You can easily switch to use the correct environment for each.
02:20
Let's look at the other options in the workspace pop up.
02:23
Next
02:24
is workspace settings.
02:25
Click on it
02:26
to display the settings dialogue.
02:28
This is where you can change the way the listing of your workspace appears,
02:32
move one up or down, add a separator and so on.
02:35
Some companies have quite a few standard workspaces.
02:38
So organizing them by discipline or task can be very important.
02:42
An important part of workspace management appears
02:44
in the bottom section of the dialogue.
02:46
This is where you define how changes are handled.
02:49
Whenever you switch workspaces,
02:51
you can choose not to save any changes you've made
02:53
to the current one or to always save any changes.
02:57
Let's make sure it's set to do not save changes in workspace.
03:00
This is the setting that if set on your
03:02
computer might save changes to your current workspace,
03:05
which may end up changing one of the
03:07
supplied workspaces most likely drafting an annotation.
03:11
Click OK? To exit the dialog.
03:13
The next item in the tools menu is customize.
03:16
This brings up the customized user interface, dialog or CU I
03:20
you can interface with your workspace there,
03:22
but that's outside the scope of this lesson.
03:24
However, it is the best place to delete a workspace. Should you need to
03:28
just right? Click on the workspace and select delete,
03:31
you'll get a confirmation box. Click. Yes. If that's what you really want,
03:35
we don't really want to do that. So we'll click. No,
03:38
then click, cancel to exit the cu I dialog.
03:41
The last item in the menu is called display workspace label.
03:45
Click on that and you'll see that the status bar
03:47
icon expands to include the name of the current workspace,
03:50
which is pretty handy if you're changing workspaces often,
03:54
although no changes have actually been made to the user interface.
03:58
Let's imagine that you have and you want to
03:60
make sure they're saved to my new workspace.
04:02
Click on the gear icon and then on save current as
04:06
you'll get the save workspace dialog again.
04:09
This time instead of typing a name in, click on the down arrow to expand the pull down,
04:14
choose my new workspace and click on the save button.
04:17
You'll get a confirmation pop up, click on replace and your changes will be saved.
04:22
It's important to know exactly what a workspace contains and what it doesn't.
04:26
It remembers the location and configuration of
04:28
user interface elements such as menus,
04:31
pallets, toolbars, the command line, et cetera.
04:34
It saves it into the CU I or menu file.
04:37
All of the other settings that make up your environment are stored in your profile,
04:41
which is automatically updated whenever you make a change to an included item.
04:46
These are things like the background, color, the command line,
04:49
font and color your cursor size, pick box size,
04:52
pretty much anything that's found in the main options,
04:54
dialogue including path information.
04:57
All of this information is stored in your computer's registry.
Video transcript
00:00
Once you've set your environment to your preferences or to specific workflows,
00:04
you'll want to save it, learn how to create save and restore workspaces.
00:08
In this video.
00:09
After this video,
00:11
you will learn to create a new workspace,
00:13
save a workspace and specify how it saves when changes are made,
00:17
restore a previously saved workspace, add or remove interface,
00:21
access to the workspace tools
00:25
for this video, we'll be using a blank new drawing.
00:28
Of course, the changes we'll make here can be done at any time from your open drawings
00:32
to get started.
00:33
Let's create a drawing file from the new button
00:35
in the start tab and accept the default template.
00:38
In this video.
00:39
We're going to imagine that we've changed the user interface in
00:42
various ways and then save the changes to a new workspace.
00:45
However, to begin,
00:47
we're going to briefly go in reverse and create the new workspace. First,
00:51
the reason I'm doing this is purely for the safety of your current environment.
00:54
There is a possibility that the changes we make will alter your current workspace.
00:59
So by creating a new one, first, we'll have a sandbox if you will to work in
01:03
in the status bar and displayed by default is the workspace tool.
01:07
Its icon is a gear and you'll see that it has a down arrow with it.
01:10
Click either the arrow or the gear.
01:12
You'll get a pop up menu with a separator somewhere near the middle.
01:16
The top part lists the available workspaces.
01:19
Autocad comes with three drafting and annotation,
01:24
The bottom portion of the pop up contains your workspace tools.
01:27
We want to create a new workspace based on the current configuration.
01:31
So click on save current ads,
01:33
you'll get a dialogue that will let you name your new workspace.
01:36
We'll call it my new workspace.
01:38
Click save after naming it, click on the workspace icon again
01:42
and you'll find your newly created workspace in
01:44
the list and check since it's now current
01:47
to switch again. Just click on another workspace. Let's click on 3D basics.
01:52
You'll see the interface change to reflect the tools for that workspace,
01:55
change it back to my new workspace which
01:58
we'll use throughout the remainder of this video.
02:00
Workspaces are usually considered to be task based.
02:03
For instance, you may wear many hats at your firm
02:06
and one day you're designing a 3D model of a piping system.
02:09
And the next you're creating wiring diagrams.
02:12
These two tasks use two totally different sets of tools by using workspaces.
02:17
You can easily switch to use the correct environment for each.
02:20
Let's look at the other options in the workspace pop up.
02:23
Next
02:24
is workspace settings.
02:25
Click on it
02:26
to display the settings dialogue.
02:28
This is where you can change the way the listing of your workspace appears,
02:32
move one up or down, add a separator and so on.
02:35
Some companies have quite a few standard workspaces.
02:38
So organizing them by discipline or task can be very important.
02:42
An important part of workspace management appears
02:44
in the bottom section of the dialogue.
02:46
This is where you define how changes are handled.
02:49
Whenever you switch workspaces,
02:51
you can choose not to save any changes you've made
02:53
to the current one or to always save any changes.
02:57
Let's make sure it's set to do not save changes in workspace.
03:00
This is the setting that if set on your
03:02
computer might save changes to your current workspace,
03:05
which may end up changing one of the
03:07
supplied workspaces most likely drafting an annotation.
03:11
Click OK? To exit the dialog.
03:13
The next item in the tools menu is customize.
03:16
This brings up the customized user interface, dialog or CU I
03:20
you can interface with your workspace there,
03:22
but that's outside the scope of this lesson.
03:24
However, it is the best place to delete a workspace. Should you need to
03:28
just right? Click on the workspace and select delete,
03:31
you'll get a confirmation box. Click. Yes. If that's what you really want,
03:35
we don't really want to do that. So we'll click. No,
03:38
then click, cancel to exit the cu I dialog.
03:41
The last item in the menu is called display workspace label.
03:45
Click on that and you'll see that the status bar
03:47
icon expands to include the name of the current workspace,
03:50
which is pretty handy if you're changing workspaces often,
03:54
although no changes have actually been made to the user interface.
03:58
Let's imagine that you have and you want to
03:60
make sure they're saved to my new workspace.
04:02
Click on the gear icon and then on save current as
04:06
you'll get the save workspace dialog again.
04:09
This time instead of typing a name in, click on the down arrow to expand the pull down,
04:14
choose my new workspace and click on the save button.
04:17
You'll get a confirmation pop up, click on replace and your changes will be saved.
04:22
It's important to know exactly what a workspace contains and what it doesn't.
04:26
It remembers the location and configuration of
04:28
user interface elements such as menus,
04:31
pallets, toolbars, the command line, et cetera.
04:34
It saves it into the CU I or menu file.
04:37
All of the other settings that make up your environment are stored in your profile,
04:41
which is automatically updated whenever you make a change to an included item.
04:46
These are things like the background, color, the command line,
04:49
font and color your cursor size, pick box size,
04:52
pretty much anything that's found in the main options,
04:54
dialogue including path information.
04:57
All of this information is stored in your computer's registry.
Once you’ve set your environment to your preferences or to specific workflows, you’ll want to save it as a new workspace. In this video, you’ll learn how to create, save, manage, and restore your workspaces.
After completing this video, you will be able to:
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