- [Instructor] Now that I've unarchived
and opened my very first project,
let's take a look at the user interface.
So, right off the bat it might look like I don't see much,
or I'm not even seeing the project I've just opened here.
But if I jump over to my left hand side
I have a documents tab here,
and this documents tab will hold
all of the electrical documents
that I've created in a specific project.
So here's my project called Unarchiving.
I can just expand that to see what's within this project.
And here I just have a document book which is
essentially just a way to help organize our projects.
And within that document book,
looks like I have about 11 different
electrical documents or drawings.
And I can just double click on any of these to open them up.
So it look like I have a cover page, drawing list,
some power schematics, a line diagram, and so on.
Let's double click on my power drawing here.
And take a look, and now I can see some
electrical schematics.
So, now jumping more into the user interface,
of course the largest portion
of my interface would be this graphic zone
here right in the middle.
And I can of course zoom in and out
and pan around in my electrical designs here.
Of course, I also have a ribbon bar up at the top,
and it's organized into tabs here.
And each of these tabs has a whole number
of different commands and tools
that we'll be learning throughout this course.
But maybe what's most important to me
when it comes to the user interface is the view tab.
Let's click on the view tab here.
And I have these dockable panels.
So these are essentially all of my side panels
that I can turn on or off.
So if you ever see that you're missing a side panel
or you can't find your documents side panel
on your left hand side for example,
go into your view tab and it might just be
that you have your documents side panel turned off,
and now I can't see anything on my left hand side.
So just make sure that's turned on
and whatever other panels you'd like to be turned on here.
So I'd say by default what panels I like
to almost always have turned on are my documents panel,
so again that shows all of my electrical schematics
and so on; I also like to have a components panel turned on.
That's all of the electrical components
that are used within this project,
so for example if I'm using a circuit breaker
or a fuse or a motor and so on,
it's going to show the list of all of those components,
so that's very useful to have.
I also like to have on the properties panel,
so this would be used, say for example
if I just want to change properties
of a specific component or wire or whatever it might be,
I have a side panel here called Properties.
And here I can just change a name
or value or whatever it might be.
I also like to have on my symbols side panel as well.
And this will get more useful as we go on here,
but this is essentially one way
that I can just click and drag
and add my electrical symbols to a schematic.
So those are just some of the panels
that I always like to have on,
but of course you can customize these to your own needs,
turn on or off whichever panels you like,
and whichever panels you use most.
What's also very important to note here
is that the user interface is very customizable,
so for example if you want it on the left hand side
or the right hand side, or the bottom or the top,
I can really just click and drag.
So maybe I want to change where my symbols are placed,
my symbols panel, and just click and drag there,
and I can place this symbols panel
just anywhere, floating in 3D space,
and now it's just a floating panel.
Or click and drag and maybe dock it up top
or down at the bottom, or left hand side,
right hand side, really wherever you'd like it.
And I can reorganize these tabs as well,
just again click and drag
to fully customize our user interface.