Switching Environments

Settings made in the commands Set System Options and Show Toolbars, as well as in some other commands, can be saved using the Environments mechanism. Created Environments are used to quickly set up the system.

Environment is a set of system settings that can be saved in the Windows Registry: the visibility and composition of toolbars, special system windows, library and folder windows, the system settings, default customizations of various commands. An Environment may also include the settings made in various system windows (variables editor, databases, etc.) and, as was already mentioned, all settings defined in the commands Show Toolbars and Set System Options.

Environments are created by the user. Created Environments can be edited and deleted.

By using Environments you can quickly set up the system in a desired way by simply applying an earlier saved Environment. You can create an unlimited number of Environments. In this way, for example, you can arrange convenient working of several users on one work seat: save each user's Environment with one's personal settings and apply it when needed. Besides that, Environments can be stored in external files and, therefore, be loaded from external files. This allows porting T-FLEX CAD settings from one work seat to another one.

The main work with Environments (creating, editing, deleting, applying, export/import from an external file) is done in the Show Toolbars command dialog on the “Environment” tab. This was described earlier in this chapter, the section “Customize Toolbars and Keyboards”, the topic Environment Tab. Here we will describe the method to quickly apply already created Environments.

Environments can be quickly loaded using the drop-down menu, which contains all environments existing in the system:

To use any of the Environments, you just need to go into the said menu and select the desired Environment from the list.

Customize… command available in the same menu serves to quickly open  the Environment tab of the toolbars and keyboard customization dialog.

See Also:

•Environment