Explore the intricate process of customizing the visibility of different items on the status bar of a program. This article dives into the specifics of enhancing user experience by adjusting settings such as dynamic input, ortho, polar tracking, 2D object snapping, and transparency.
Key Insights
- The status bar in a program allows you to control the visibility of various items including dynamic input, ortho, polar, osnap, 2D osnap, and selection cycling. You can turn these features on or off depending on your preference.
- Dynamic input settings can be altered from default relative coordinates to absolute coordinates. This allows you to draw a rectangle at specific feet measurements, enhancing precision in your work.
- The article also demonstrates how to save a customized workspace environment with a unique name, such as 'VDCI-01'. This saved environment can be accessed in the future for consistent user experience.
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Let's look at the status bar on the bottom right corner of the program. You see, for example, it's showing that I'm in model space. And you can see that right here is F8, the Ortho, whether or not we have Ortho.
To the right of that is Polar, OSNAP, and so on and so forth. Over here in the far right corner, far right bottom corner, is where we can customize or control the visibility of different items on the status bar. One thing I'd like to do is to turn on Dynamic Input.
We have Dynamic Input on, we have Ortho on, Polar. I'm going to turn off Isometric Drafting. I'm going to keep OSNAP Tracking.
I'm actually going to turn that off. My 2D OSNAP I will have on. I'm going to turn on Selection Cycling and Transparency.
So again, I have model space active. I'm going to take the Snap Mode off. When I take the Snap Mode off, it will not jump snapping to different items.
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I have Dynamic Input on, Ortho on, Polar Tracking on, 2D Object Snapping on, Transparency is set to be on, Selection Cycling is on. I'm not going to mess with the Annotative and Auto-Scaling information. I'll keep that on.
Workspace, I'll keep that on. Annotation, I'll keep that on. So I'm just going to click back in the screen.
What I'd like to do for Dynamic Input is go on top of it and do a right button and choose Dynamic Input Settings. The one you need to change is to make sure that it's saying Absolute Coordinates. For some odd reason, Autodesk has set the default settings for Dynamic Input to be relative as opposed to absolute.
By having it chosen as absolute, when we say draw a rectangle at 4 feet comma 4 feet, it will go over an absolute at 4 feet comma 4 feet. We want to have Absolute Coordinates turned on. I'm going to go OK there and go OK there.
My Polar Tracking, I will go on to it, do a right button. I'm going to set it at 5 degrees. So again, Polar Tracking is still on, but I set it at 5 degrees.
My OSNAP cursor, that's saying snap to the reference points. That's fine. I'm going to do a right button.
I'm going to deselect Center and deselect Extension. So this way it will be snapping to the endpoint and the intersection, which are the normal ones. Transparency, I'm going to turn it on.
And then I have over here, my Hardware Acceleration is on. So I've made some nice adjustments to the status bar. Now what I'd like to do, now that we're almost there, is I'd like to go ahead and save this entire configuration on the screen with a workspace environment name.
So I'm going to go to Workspace Environment, Workspace Settings. I'm going to save the current as VDCI-01. So I'm going to go save, and so I've now saved this workspace environment with this format, and I'm going to Control-S to save.
We have just saved our workspace settings in the CUIX file. So for example, if I were to go back and to go to another workspace settings, I could call in my 3D Basics. Again, these are the ones that ship by default with AutoCAD, and I could also go back to my VDCI-01.
So again, you can see that we now have the configuration environment that we're used to. What I'd like to do in the next video is to start setting our layout environments to be working with a color table file for plotting.
