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Chapter 1 Arranging the AutoCAD User Interface
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Using Workspaces
Do you find it impossible to come up with the perfect arrangement of menus, toolbars, and
palettes? There are just too many toolbars and palettes and never enough screen real estate to
make this wish come true.
Enter workspaces. This feature was designed to fulfill this seemingly impossible dream.
Workspaces save any arrangement of menus, toolbars, and palettes that you care to create.
The idea is that you can save a workspace for every set of tasks that you want to perform.
Doing 3D modeling? Save the relevant toolbars and palettes as a workspace. Back to construc-
tion documentation? You’ll need different palettes, toolbars, …you get the picture — save it
all as a workspace.
If you don’t want to be bothered to manually save changes to your ever-evolving work-
spaces, you can elect to automatically save workspace changes. Use the WSSETTINGS com-
mand, or click the first button on the Workspaces
toolbar. Click the second radio button to make this
change.
However, there is some danger with this
approach. Everything you change is saved automat-
ically, so there’s no room for massive experimenta-
tion if you’re basically happy with the UI. Perhaps
your best bet is to set workspaces to automatically
save during a period of experimentation. Then,
revert back to Do Not Save Changes To Workspace
once you’re satisfied that your workspaces are more
or less carved in stone.
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