Want Drawing Annotation and Drawing Panels at the same time...

[Anonymous]

When making my 2D drawings, I want the panel bar to show both the Drawing
Views Panel and the Drawing Annotation Panle at the same time.

I use them with text OFF, and there is plenty of room to show both.I hate
switching back-and-forth between the two.

Righ now, I have one in the Panel Bar, and the other as shown as a ToolBar,
just so I can get to them both at the same time.

[mflayler2]

Right mouse on your Standard Toolbar and bring in the Drafting Annotation toolbar in your Environment. Or you could create your own customized panel.

Tools --> Customize

[Anonymous]

The problem is that the Panel Bar will only display ONE panel at a time. You
can enabled a variety of panels to choose from when you right click there,
but my complaint is that you can only display one Panel at time. My grip
is, that with text labels turned off, there is tons of room BELOW the one
panel that is displayed, that they could easliy let you display more panels,
but again, you can view ONE panel at a time. I find that I am always
switching back-and-forth, and it makes me mad to see such an oversight in
the IDE deisgn.

I guess positioning a tool bar on top of the empty area in the Panel Bar is
about the best you can do.

wrote in message news:5952441@discussion.autodesk.com...
Right mouse on your Standard Toolbar and bring in the Drafting Annotation
toolbar in your Environment. Or you could create your own customized panel.

Tools --> Customize

[mflayler2]

You can also put it on the side of your Panel or put all the icons in the same Panel with the Customize box. There is a lot of customizing options with the software you are just seeing the default option. Try dragging and dropping commands from the Customize's list of commands into your Panel on screen. I do the same thing to get Measure Distance in my Standard toolbar.

[JDMather]

>and it makes me mad to see such an oversight

This is trivially easy -
You should be able to RMB on any icon across the top of the screen and add the Drawing Annotation Panel in addition to the Panel Bar.

And you could take it even futher by going to Customize....

[JDMather]

You could have all three on the screen (don't know why you would want to).

[dan_inv09]

I think he said somewhere that he tried adding a tool bar but that that was not what he wanted.

[JDMather]

In that case it is simply a matter of dragging and dropping any addtional tools onto the panel bar in one or the other panes.