Working with drawings tabs in the program's taskbar

You can arrange the drawings in your project into a workspace that makes your work easy and smooth. You do this arrangement by adding drawings, deleting them, stacking them in groups by type. You can also set a "welcome" drawing, which is the first drawing to load each time you open the project.

You arrange the drawings workspace by working with the drawings tabs.

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To create a drawing to a project

You can create a drawing from any drawing's tab. Note that regardless of the type of drawing you start from, the new drawing is always a 1up drawing.

1. Right-click a drawing's tab, and then click New Drawing.
2. In the dialog box that appears, accept or edit the name of the drawing, and then click OK.

The new 1up drawing opens and its tab appears as the rightmost tab in the program's taskbar.

To set a "welcome" drawing on project open

You can make a particular drawing load each time you open a project. The chosen tab is always the leftmost tab in the program's taskbar. A project can have only one "welcome" tab; setting a "welcome" drawing overrides the "welcome" drawing set earlier.

• Right-click the drawing's tab, and then click Pin Drawing.

To delete a drawing

1. Right-click the drawing's tab, and then click Delete Drawing.
2. In the dialog box that appears, click OK.

To move drawing tabs along the program's taskbar

• Click and hold down the mouse button on a drawing tab, and then drag it along the program's taskbar to where you want to position it.

NOTE: While you're dragging the tab, a banned-action indicator appears (pictured, left) in the places where you cannot position the tab. When you see the allowed-action tab indicator (pictured, right), release the mouse button to position the tab.

To stack tabs in the program's taskbar

If, in a project, you work with multiple drawings, you can group them into a tabs stack. This frees up space and helps you better access drawings of the same type.

1. Press CTRL and click the drawing's tab you want to add to a tab stack.
2. Drag the tab to another tab that you want to group it with, and then release the mouse button.

Pinning drawings to the project's taskbar

If your work on a project requires that you return often to a specific drawing, you an pin it to the taskbar. When you pin a drawing, it becomes the leftmost drawing on the taskbar, and is thus easily accessible. Pinning drawings is a handy technique when you work with projects with a large number of drawings and you often need to open a particular one.

You can pin more than one drawing.

To pin a drawing

• Right-click the drawing's tab, and then click Pin Drawing.

The drawing's tab becomes the leftmost tab on the taskbar. If you proceed with pinning other drawings, they will line next to the drawings pinned earlier. (Pictured above.)

To unpin a drawing

• Right-click the tab of a pinned drawing, and then click Unpin Drawing.

The drawing's tab is no longer pinned and moves to the leftmost position of the unpinned drawings. (Pictured above.)

To remove a drawing tab from a tabs stack

• To remove a tab from a tabs stack, in the tab, click the down arrow (pictured), select the drawing that you want, and then drag it along the program's taskbar to where you want it to be.

To delete tab stacks

You can delete tabs stacks by right-clicking the stack and pressing Delete All [number] Drawings.

1. Right-click the tabs stack, and then click Delete All [number] Drawings.
2. In the dialog box that appears listing the drawings that will be deleted, click OK.

NOTE: A condition applies for stacks of 1up drawings: A project cannot be without a 1up drawing. So, to delete a stack of 1up drawings, ensure that there is at least one 1up drawing outside the stack.