Datasheet

Customizing Toolbars
You can customize each toolbar, and you can build your own custom toolbars to
display only the buttons you use frequently. You can even design your own but-
tons for commands that aren’t already represented by buttons on the toolbars.
These activities are for more advanced users, however, and aren’t covered in this
book. To find out more about how to customize toolbars, see Mastering Auto-
CAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 by George Omura (Wiley, 2007).
Workspaces
Now that you have your screen set up to look like Figure 1.3, you are ready to
proceed through the book. I’ll direct you to display additional toolbars as needed.
For now, though, save this setup as a new workspace because it’s a variation of
the AutoCAD Classic or LT workspace that comes with the program. Follow
these steps:
1. Choose Tools
➣ Workspaces ➣ Save Current As. This opens the Save
Workspace dialog box (see Figure 1.13).
FIGURE 1.13: The Save Workspace dialog box
2. Enter 2D Drawing, and click Save. The computer works for a while
and then returns you to your workspace. The new 2D Drawing work-
space setup will remain as it now is until you change it or until you
select a different workspace.
3. Right-click any toolbar, and click the Workspaces entry in the Tool-
bars list; you’ll see the 2D Drawing workspace displayed in the Work-
spaces toolbar below 2D Drafting & Annotation, 3D Modeling, and
AutoCAD Classic (see Figure 1.14). Later in this book, AutoCAD
users will switch to the 3D Modeling workspace and make a few
adjustments to it.
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