Workspaces are a convenient way to customize the display of commands in the IntelliCAD main window. Each workspace stores visibility settings for the following:
• Menus — Visibility settings are saved for each top-level menu (for example, the Draw menu) and each nested menu (for example, the Draw > Arc submenu).
• Toolbars — Visibility settings are saved for each toolbar, its orientation at the top, bottom, left, right, or floating, number of button rows, x-coordinate, and y-coordinate.
• Ribbon — For CADdirect versions that have a ribbon, visibility settings are saved for whether the ribbon itself displays, along with visibility settings for each ribbon tab (for example, the Home tab) and each panel (for example, Home > Modify).
Use a shortcut to make more space for drawing in the CADdirect main window.
Click Clean Screen On/Off on the status bar to hide multiple user interface items at the same time. To customize what hides (or displays), right-click the icon and make your selections for the next time you click the icon.
To create a workspace
1 Organize the menus, toolbars, and ribbon the way you want them.
2 Do one of the following to choose Save Workspace (
):
• On the ribbon, choose Tools > Save Workspace (in Manage).
• On the menu, choose Tools > Save Workspace.
• On the status bar, click Switch Between Workspaces, then choose Save Current As.
• Type wssave, press Enter.
• Type workspace, press Enter, then choose SaveAs.
3 Enter the name of the new workspace.
4 Click OK.
To save the current visibility settings to an existing workspace
1 Organize the menus, toolbars, and ribbon the way you want them.
2 Do one of the following to choose Save Workspace (
):
• On the ribbon, choose Tools > Save Workspace (in Manage).
• On the menu, choose Tools > Save Workspace.
• On the status bar, click Switch Between Workspaces, then choose Save Current As.
• Type wssave, press Enter.
• Type workspace, press Enter, then choose SaveAs.
3 Select an existing workspace name from the list.
4 Click OK.
To switch to a workspace
1 Do one of the following:
• On the ribbon, choose the desired workspace from the Workspaces list (
).
• On the status bar, click Switch Between Workspaces (
), then choose the desired workspace.
• On the Workspaces toolbar, choose the desired workspace.
• Type workspace, press Enter, choose Set Current, then enter the name of the desired workspace.
The My Workspace tool (Workspaces toolbar) loads a specific workspace.
Click the My Workspace tool (
) to switch to your preferred workspace. To set which workspace loads when you click the My Workspace tool, click (
) on the status bar, choose Workspace Settings, then choose the workspace in My Workspace.
