A reader recently asked me how to get the layout tabs back in AutoCAD 2009. He had been using the Quick View Layout (or QVL for short) but wanted to use the tabs again. In some cases tabs are quicker and easier to use. I agree. The QVL are great when you want a preview of the layout. Well, here's how:
Open up OPTIONS. To do that, type on the command line OPTIONS. (caps don't matter by the way.) Go to the DISPLAY tab, then to the bottom left of the screen to the LAYOUT ELEMENTS area. Make sure to Check the box that says DISPLAY LAYOUT AND MODEL TABS. That will turn them on.
You can use either method of moving through the tabs i your drawings. Even if the tabs are on, you can still use QVL. If you don't like either of these methods, you can toggle through your tabs by pressing CTRL+PAGE UP (or PAGE DOWN). CTRL+Page Up takes you towards the first tab, while CTRL+Page Down take you toward the last tab.
Showing posts with label quick view. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quick view. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2009
Thursday, March 20, 2008
AutoCAD 2009 – Quick View Drawings
Here is another CAD-a-Blog edition of AutoCAD 2009 Tips & Tricks.
This time I want to look at the new Quick View Drawings feature. It is virtually identical to the Quick View Layouts feature we talked about before. The main difference is that instead of displaying images of the files layout tabs, it displays images of the drawings you currently have open. BUT (there’s always a but), when you hover your cursor over one of the drawings images, that drawings layout tabs will be displayed as if you just activated the Quick View Layout feature! You get a two for one deal here.
All of the options for the Quick View Layout feature are here and similar features for the Quick View Drawing feature are there two. You can save or close a file, open a file, or create a new file. The QVD (Quick View Drawing) feature is started the same way the Quick View Layout feature is. Click the icon for it on the status bar. Very easy, very quick. The QVD images can be pinned and closed by clicking on the icon for it in the QVD Control Panel (that’s the row of icons just below the drawing images), just like the QVL.
That’s it in a nutshell.
Happy CADDING J
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
AutoCAD 2009 – Quick View Layouts
How do you know what is in the layout tab of a file? You don’t until you open that tab. Not anymore!! With AutoCAD 2009 we now have Quick View Layouts. I mentioned this in my review of the status bar (as well as other things, go check it out for a quick review).
The Quick View Layouts do more than display an image of the layout tabs of a file. If you select one, the drawing will open to that tab. Nice! You can see the tab and make a selection based on what is in there, not what you remember. This is an especially nice feature when you work with other people’s drawings.
What else can we do with this new feature? Plot, publish, create a new layout, and everything else that we could do before. The Quick View Layouts really replace the layout tabs, though you can still turn them on if you want to. If you want to plot or publish a tab, click either icon that appears in the Quick View Layout image, they are at the top and on either side. You can print a layout without opening it!
If you right click a quick view image, you get all of the old fashioned options to choose from. You can also PIN the QVL images so that they stay up on your screen. I’ll post again about the PIN option that is all over AutoCAD 2009. You can PIN just about anything these days!
One little odd thing about the QVL, is that it cannot display a preview image of model space?? There is a placeholder image. I don’t know why, sorry. Also, until a preview image is created, there will be a placeholder image for the tabs. Just save the file or activate the tab to create the image.
You can start the QVL by clicking the icon on the status bar, or (for the keyboard junkies like me) type in QVLAYOUT. I think that it might be easier to click the icon!
Happy CADDING : )
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