Customizing Settings

Before you start your first working session, you can customize the way you work to suit your habits.
This type of customization is stored in permanent setting files: these settings will not be lost if you end your session.

Note that some settings apply to Generative Drafting only, while others apply to Interactive Drafting only. Such cases are specified.

  1. Select Tools > Options. The Options dialog box is displayed.

  2. Choose the Mechanical Design category in the left-hand box.

  3. Select the Drafting sub-category. Various tabs are displayed.
     

    • General lets you set general settings to be used in the Generative Drafting workbench.

    • Layout lets you customize options that will be used when creating views or when adding sheets.

    • View lets you customize geometry, dress-up and view generation options that will be used when generating views (Generative Drafting workbench only).

    • Generation lets you customize options for controlling dimension and annotation generation (Generative Drafting workbench only).

    • Geometry lets you customize options that will be used when creating 2D geometry, whether using autodetection (or SmartPick) or not, or still adding constraints to this geometry.

    • Dimension lets you customize options that will be used when creating or re-positioning dimensions.

    • Manipulators lets you optimize options that will be used for manipulators when creating or modifying dimensions (Interactive Drafting workbench only).

    • Annotation and Dress-Up lets you customize options that will be used when creating annotations.

    • Administration lets you customize options for the management of drawings.

  4. Set options in these tabs according to your needs.

  5. Click OK in the Options dialog box when done.