From the course: Learning Vectorworks
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The workspace - Vectorworks Tutorial
From the course: Learning Vectorworks
The workspace
- [Instructor] The UI within Vectorworks is saved as a prearranged layout. Each specific version of Vectorworks has its own unique workspace. When you become more familiar with the software, you can also create your own. Let's take a look at how it's setup right out of the box. So for mouse controls, you can left mouse click, just like a typical program, and select things. Just like you would selecting different panels and tools. Now if you have a three button mouse, you can use the middle mouse click, to activate the pan tool. And if you notice, I'm going to hold down this pan tool. If you look up at the upper left corner of the screen under the basic's palette, the pan tool is active. I'm going to let go of the middle mouse button, and it is off. So it just activates that pan tool whenever you middle mouse click. The right mouse click activates a contextual menu. So when I right mouse click on any empty area of our view window, it brings up a temporary menu bar. And this has a…
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