Explore the intricacies of setting up and customizing your drawing interface for efficient workflow in construction documents. This article provides step-by-step guidance on activating coordinates, optimizing the command prompt, and modifying the color scheme to make your workspace more user-friendly and conventional.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the need for interface customization for efficient work on construction documents, including activating coordinates to aid navigation and turning off dynamic input to keep focus on the command prompt.
- Optimal workspace setup involves adjusting the position of key features such as the command prompt bar, layer properties, and xrefs, ensuring these tools are accessible and do not obstruct the work area.
- Saving your workspace environment, such as in a cuix file, helps preserve your interface adjustments, creating a personalized and consistent workspace for your tasks. This, however, does not impact your drawing template file.
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I'm in a brand new drawing, and we're getting ready to start reintegrating our construction documents. But before I do that, I'd like to make a couple of changes to the user interface for this drawing. So I'm going to do this.
I'm going to go over here on the right and go to my settings for customization. I'm going to turn on my coordinates, which will show up down here. I'm also going to turn off Dynamic Input.
The reason I'm doing that is I really prefer that people's eyes be focused on the command prompt, rather than going back and forth between the Dynamic Input and the command prompt itself. So I've activated the coordinates. I've turned off Dynamic Input.
I'm also going to take my command prompt bar, and I'm picking up here on the sides, and I'll just drag this up. So I'm configuring the environment much more like it is traditionally set up, where we have the ribbon bar on top and the command prompt on top of that. I'm now going to take my XREFs.
I'm going to pull it down. I'm going to take my Layer Properties, pull it over. Now I'm going to drag this XREFs more to the left, and again, you can see it wants to dock.
I just hold down Control when I drag it, and it's locking on the left-hand side of the screen. I'm going to choose my Layer Properties. Once again, hold Control so it doesn't dock, and pull that right there.
Now the last thing I want to do configuring my environment is to go ahead and put this back on the more traditional white background. So I will go up to the big A. I'm going to go over to Options. I will go to Display.
I'm going to change my color scheme to Light. Go ahead and apply it, and go OK. So it makes it a little bit easier to see.
Now the last thing I need to do is to save my workspace environment. So I will go down here to the cog, and I will choose Save Current As, and I will type in VDCI-01 and go Save. It's going to say it's already there.
Do I want to replace it? I'm going to replace it. And so now we have our environment looking a little bit more conventional. Now just remember that by having done this, we have now updated our CUIX file.
This is not impacting our drawing template file, but it's the CUIX file. If you would please get this done, and then we will go into updating our drawing.