Organizing workspace

[rlb]

Hi,

 

I saw the attached image on a VW ad.

 

How does one organize the workspace like this example — all on the edges of the display? I've been using floating palettes and it's awkward.

 

Are there instructions, etc.?

 

VW Architect on an iMac 27"

 

Thanks!

 

 

[Jeff Prince]

Just drag your tool pallets to the edge of the screen and they will dock there.  Watch for the blue highlighting to help with positioning.  It’s awkward the first few times you do it.

[zoomer]

Hmmh, I never have seen VW Palettes other than docked

like on that screenshot.

Since using VW 2014.

(Beside my floating, auto dropdown Resource Manager

Palette - since VW 2019 or so)

 

I think that docking is the default for all delivered workspaces.

Maybe you have your own custom Workspace.

 

You could try switching to a suitable of the delivered VW

standard Workspaces.
If one of these works mostly reasonably for you,

you could duplicate it and do your personal adaptions

and customizations from there from scratch.

 

[E|FA]

Somewhat off topic, but I've never understood why the standard setup is palettes docked on both sides of the screen.  I keep mine all on the left side.  Less eye & mouse movement required, closer to menus, etc.

[Jesse Cogswell]

Quick note, do make sure that Enable Palette Docking is ticked on in the Session tab in Vectorworks Preferences.  Afterward, you should be able to grab any palette and dock it to the top, bottom, or sides of the application window.

 

 

When I started with Vectorworks in 2010, all palettes were floating when working on Mac.  I would throw them on a second monitor since you also couldn't auto-collapse the Resource Browser at the time (again, on Mac.  You could certainly do it on Windows).  I want to say that they added palette docking for Mac somewhere around VW2013.

Edited July 4, 2023 by Jesse Cogswell