Speaker 1: Now that Draft Sight
is installed and we have opened
it for the first time. Let's
take a look around and get to
know the new interface for
previous users of 2D CAD. This
may look a little familiar, but
it's always worth taking a
moment to familiarize ourselves
with the new layout. We start in
the graphic space. This is where
all your drawing work will
happen. Currently, we have a
black background. This is our
model space. This is where the
main design work happens. At the
bottom there are some tabs and
we can see some sheet tabs these
enable us to create a border
with a window or viewport back
to the model space. We look at
those in more detail in a later
video, below the graphics area.
We can see the command window.
This is where we can type in
commands. Initially we see only
one line, it's worth expanding
this to show three to four
lines, some commands of options
or instructions. And it's useful
to see those down here. So as an
example, let's draw a circle. So
we type in the command. Then you
can see the options listed
there. So you could go and
select one of those, or you can
continue just to create the
objects or circle. And it would
just accept the default options,
like so. Right at the very
bottom of the screen in the
status bar, we can see a number
of tools to
help with drafting. So it could
be grid, snapping, orthographic
projection, polar tracking,
things like this. These will be
examined in a later video. At
the top of the screen, we have
our tool ribbon. This is similar
to many applications you may
have come across and it groups,
the commands into various tabs
home tab contains most of the
standard options, insert if
we're looking for blocks,
annotate for the full list of
dimensioning and annotating
tools, text, and so on. Other
key ones to look at as perhaps
the managed tab where we can
tailor the system to our own
particular requirements and the
view tab for our zooming and
navigation tools. You may see
other tabs up there as I have,
depending on the level of draft
site that you have in your own
system. At the very, very top.
We can see the quick access
toolbar with the normal
commands, things like new open
and save and so on. There's also
a user interface selection tool,
as well as the draft site logo,
that uses the interface
selection tool. What that does
is allows you to switch from the
ribbon style to a more classic
layout. So there you can see it,
uh, and if that's what you're
more familiar with, feel free to
use that style, but I will stick
with the annotation style here.
Underneath the draft site logo,
we can see again, options for
new open, save and save as in
there too. The last area to look
at at the task panes over on the
right hand side. So we have some
different tabs here. The home
tab, we'll let you know the
latest service pack that is
available as well as links to
the support community. I have a
properties tab in there as well.
And you may find other tabs
appear there depending on
different addins or functions
that you have enabled. If you
don't have the properties type
up there and you just right
click, and you can just select
it from that list. So now that
we've introduced the interface,
let's maybe look at a way in
which perhaps we could change
it, or we could drag panels over
to the opposite side of the
screen. If you're, if you feel
the monitor would benefit from
that. Okay. And I'll just drag
it back to there. You can
reorder the tabs if you wish as
well, but that's not the only
change that we could make some
other things that we could do in
here. So if we want to modify
the interface in any way, we
need to start off by going to
the manage tab, because I might
want to add a command up here.
Okay. Cause it's quite often,
people like to have save as
maybe more accessible than
underneath that logo. Okay. So
we go to manage, then we click
on interface. This will open up
the panel and
then we can choose the area of
the interface that we want to
modify. Make sure you have
selected interface on the
left-hand side there. So I'll
expand the quick access list
there. And you can see, there
are a few options that are
hidden under a dropdown arrow at
the end, but don't have save as.
So we want to add that in. So
we'll open up this command
Explorer and it's got a complete
list of commands, but if you
just start typing in a command,
it will give us the option we
want. So then finally just drag
and drop that to across check
that it's gone through okay. We
can just hit apply. So now I can
see the extra icon in the quick
access toolbar there. So I could
now hit okay to close that
dialogue box. It's a similar
approach if you're trying to
modify sections of the ribbon or
other toolbars as well, we can
also change other options within
the interface. Uh, one of the
popular ones is to have the,
cursor show as a crosshair. So
normally when we're creating new
geometry, for example, the
circle, you can see that the
cursor is now a crosshair here,
and many users like to have that
persistently on screen. So let's
see how we can do that to our
system. So again, we're on the
manage tab. What we need to do
is go to options, this time. And
there is a number
of different sections that we
could look to with subsections.
And it can be quite hard to find
the particular option we
require. So what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna use the find box down
at the bottom. So we'll go down
there and I can type in cross.
And then I can see the option
that I'm looking for. So display
cursor as crosshair, so I can go
and select that it's now
highlighting the tick box, or I
can just go and select it. And I
could also adjust the size of
that the crosshair. So one
option I quite like is to set
that to a hundred. So it's going
to be the full width of the
interface. And then when I hit,
okay, you can see with this full
crosshair going all the way
across the screen. Some people
like it, it might not be your
preference. So just see which
options you prefer. The last
thing that we're going to
introduce here, which may maybe
a bit newer to some users,
there's a thing called mouse
gestures. These are available by
using the right mouse button. So
what you have to do is actually
drag with the right mouse
button. Don't just right click.
So it's a click and drag. And so
if we do that, what it's going
to do is highlight a wheel of
commands. It could be four
commands, or it can be eight.
And generally they're going
to be commands that you use
almost all the time. So you
almost don't think about them.
There's a sort of, so we can go
and select whichever option you
like. So if we want to modify
that in some way, or you just
have to go up to the top, click
on mouse gestures. So over here
we can choose, do you want eight
or four or even a tick box there
to turn them off if you find
them distracting, which is
absolutely fine. So to modify
those commands would just need
to search for the command you
want to use. Let's just list the
ones that we already have. So
maybe there's one of those that
we feel doesn't need to be
there. So clear that list and be
typing in new commands so let's
say I was going to do something
to save as and so there, I can
maybe choose an option. Okay.
I'm not actually going to change
it in this instance, but there
is an option there also, to
print that list off for
reference, if you are going to
make use of it. So this
concludes this video, next
video, we'll introduce how you
can navigate around your
drawings and also explain the
use of layers in drawings as
well.