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dashboard, a special palette with task-specific control panels. You can create your own workspaces and modify the
default workspaces. For more information, see and “Create Task-Based Workspaces” in the AutoCAD help.
Workspaces work with and complement the control over your drawing environment provided by profiles. Workspaces
control the display of menus, toolbars, and palettes in the drawing area. When you use or switch a workspace, you
change the display of your drawing area. You manage your workspaces from the Customize User Interface dialog box
and from the Workspaces toolbar.
Profiles save environment settings including many of your user options, drafting settings, paths, and other values.
Profiles are updated each time you make a change to an option, setting, or other value. You can manage your profiles
from the Options dialog box. For more information, see “Save and Restore Interface Settings (Profiles)” in the AutoCAD
help.
1 Display the Workspaces toolbar in the drawing window.
2 If you want to use one of the workspaces shipped with AutoCAD Architecture, select one of the following
from the drop-down menu.
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Design (Provides all the basic tools for creating architectural objects in your drawings)
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Document (Provides tools for adding schedule tables, annotations, callouts, and other documentation
objects to your drawings)
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Detailing (Provides tools for inserting a wide variety of predefined detail components, as well as tools
for detail drafting)
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Visualization (Includes all the tools available in the Design workspace as well as the dashboard palette,
which provides tools for 3D modeling, viewing, and rendering)
3 To edit an existing workspace or create a new workspace, select Customize, and create and edit workspaces
as described in “Customize Workspaces” in the AutoCAD Help.
Working with Objects in the Workspace
The AutoCAD Architecture workspace is where you add and manipulate the architectural objects that make up your
drawings.
Adding Objects
You add objects to the drawing with tools.
Tools generally have preset creation parameters called properties. When you click an object tool to add an object in
the drawing, the Properties palette opens so that you can change properties for the new object if desired. If not, you
can go ahead and place the object in the drawing. For more information, see “
Tools ” on page 44.
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