- [Instructor] Once again we're staying
in our interface.gwg file.
And it's so much easier to work in AutoCAD
when you've got an actual drawing file open.
If you don't have one open,
you can't get access to things
like the ribbon for example,
which we covered in the previous video.
Talking of the ribbon,
I want to talk about now workspaces in AutoCAD.
And how you can utilize workspaces,
to customize your user interface a little bit.
Workspaces are really useful.
Now you'll remember,
we talked about the quick access toolbar, didn't we?
I'm going to go back up to the quick access toolbar,
and hit the little eject symbol.
And that will allow me to obviously customize
my quick access toolbar.
You'll notice on the list there's one called workspace.
If I click on that,
that'll now show me the workspaces available to me,
in my AutoCAD installation.
So if I click on that little down arrow there,
like so, you can see
I've got drafting and annotation,
3D basics, 3D modeling.
They're the three default workspaces
that come with your full AutoCAD installation.
3D basics and 3D modeling are not available
in AutoCAD LT by the way,
if that's what you are using for this particular course.
So if I went into something like 3D modeling now,
you'll notice that the ribbon changes,
and it brings up all of the 3D modeling tools
so that I can work in a 3D model.
Now we're not working in a 3D model,
we've got a 2D floor plan to work on.
So what I can do is click on the little dropdown menu again,
and select drafting and annotation,
and it takes me back again
to my drafting and annotation my 2D ribbon,
in my 2D drafting and annotation workspace.
Now you'll notice that I can basically include workspaces
up on the quick access toolbar if I want to.
I'm going to customize the quick access toolbar again,
and I'm going to click on workspace,
and turn it off again so it disappears.
So where else can I gain access to my workspaces?
I can come down here,
down on the status bar
there's a little gear wheel cog here,
click on the little arrow next to it,
and I can switch between my workspace is there as well.
So there's 3D modeling click on it,
and you can see that the workspace changes.
Come down here, click on the arrow again,
go back to drafting and annotation, like so.
Now another thing I showed you,
is how to use those sticky panels on your ribbon.
Let's do that again.
Let's click and drag on the draw panel.
on the home tab on the ribbon,
And I'll drag that into the drawing area.
I'll do the same with the modify panel as well.
Like we did before.
So they're now floating somewhere,
and I've customized my AutoCAD workspace.
Now I can save this and keep it as my workspace.
Let's go down to that little cog wheel on the status bar,
and click on the arrow.
Let's do a save current as.
I'm then prompted to save the workspace.
So my initials are SCB.
So let's put, SCB dash AutoCAD,
and then another space and then 2D.
It's my AutoCAD 2D workspace.
So I'll click on save now,
and that now saves all of those settings
in my own workspace.
So when I click on the little fly out now,
I've got an extra workspace,
and you can see the tick next to it.
that's the workspace I'm using.
My SCB AutoCAD 2D workspace
with my little sticky panels,
floating around in the drawing area.
If I select drafting an annotation now,
watch what happens.
You'll notice that draw and modify
are now back in the ribbon, like so.
But if I jump down here,
and select my workspace SCB AutoCAD 2D,
you'll notice that my little panels are floating again.
I've got my sticky panels floating in the drawing area.
So that's how you can make some little customizations
to your user interface,
using the workspaces tool in AutoCAD.
What I'll do now,
is I'll jump back to the drafting and annotation workspace,
cause we'll be using that for the majority of the course.
But if you want to customize your workspace at any time,
you now know how to do it.