Views and Dock Panel

Views are mini-windows with specific functionality that allow you to display, create, test, or edit elements, graphics, and symbols. Views, when selected from the ribbon, are displayed within the dock panel; a frame below the ribbon, that hosts the views and allows you to choose where and how a view displays.

A view can be docked into a specific position, you can click-and-drag the view and place it anywhere in the Graphics Editor, or you can snap it into five different locations around the inner perimeter of the Graphics Editor.

List of Views

The Graphics Editor includes the following views:

  • Aerial
  • Brush Editor
  • Depths
  • Element Tree
  • Evaluation Editor
  • Find and Replace
  • Library Browser
  • Properties
  • Status Bar
  • Value Simulator

Hiding, Restoring, and Closing Views

You can hide a view to conceal its content and create more space for other views, and then click Thumbnail to reveal content when you need it. You can also close a view by clicking Close . When you close a view, you remove it from the dock panel. To return the view to the dock panel, you re-select it from the Display Views group on the View tab.

Moving, Docking, Saving, and Resetting Views

You can customize your workspace by moving views from one area of the dock panel to another. When you click and drag a view, as you move the view around the dock panel a series of position anchors display and if you hover over one of the positions a blue shaded area indicates where the view would dock and display upon releasing the mouse button. If you like the current layout of your views in the dock panel, you can save the current workspace definition, and reset both the current and factory workspaces through the Layout group command on the Options tab.

Floating Views

You can drag views to other locations of your monitors so that they float separately from Graphics Editor and the application panes. This is especially useful if you use two monitors since you can then expand the floating view to accommodate more information and eliminate excessive scrolling. Floating a view also creates space for the remaining views in the main window.

NOTE: You can float a view on an Installed client; however, the Web server and Remote Server clients do not support floating windows.

Related Topics

For related procedures, see Arranging Views and Dock Panel Placement.

For workspace overview, see Views.