CAD Manager Stuff I - Workspaces

This is the first in a series of articles on how CAD Managers can more easily manage their users machines. Further articles will include discussion of the CUI menu files and how to customize them so that you can easily maintain menus for an an entire company.

Ever sit down at a user station to fix a problem and your eyes fall out because you can't stand the way they have their screen arranged? Imagine if you could sit at any AutoCAD station and have the AutoCAD desktop look exactly like you are used to. Wouldn't that make it easier for you to diagnose user problems?

Workspaces! That's how you do it, at least in AutoCAD 2006 and 2007.

It's easy:

1. Arrange the toolbars, colors, command line, palettes just the way you want them
2. Pick the Tools pulldown then pick Workspaces
3. Pick Save Current As and enter in whatever name you want to give it

That's it! The user can now customize to his or her content. When you sit down, just pick Workspaces and select the Workspace you've created and you are in business.