{"id":388,"date":"2015-08-24T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2015-08-24T12:01:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:01:34","slug":"larger_drawing_area_for_small_screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/24\/larger_drawing_area_for_small_screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Larger drawing area for small screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who use elMaster Design on\u00a0laptops with small screens there are some tweaks one can do to improve the drawing area. Minimizing toolbars\u00a0to improve the drawing area\u00a0can also be\u00a0useful for those users who spend a lot of time\u00a0reviewing drawings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_391\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/minimize_toolbars-icons_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-391\" class=\"wp-image-391 size-portfolio\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/minimize_toolbars-icons-495x400.png\" alt=\"Minimize to improve drawing area\" width=\"495\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minimize these to improve drawing area &#8211; Click image to see full size<\/p><\/div>\n<p>1. Size of ribbon can be set to text only menu, a compromise or a full size ribbon page.\u00a0\u00a0If you prefer how elMaster Design looked prior to the introduction of ribbon you can mimic that appearance\u00a0using this setting. If you are reviewing and do not intend to work with the drawings you can save even more screen area with RIBBONCLOSE to hide the ribbon. Use RIBBON to show it again.<\/p>\n<p>2. Ides Toolpalette can be docked. If you by accident\u00a0close it you can have it opened again using IDESTOOLPALETTE.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0Hide the command line with Ctrl+9 or COMMANDLINEHIDE. As an alternative one can\u00a0undock it to have it floating in the drawing area which allows for a larger drawing area.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_392\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/minimize_toolbars-result_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"wp-image-392 size-portfolio\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/minimize_toolbars-result1-495x400.png\" alt=\"Large drawing area\" width=\"495\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large drawing area &#8211; Click image to show full size<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who use elMaster Design on\u00a0laptops with small screens there are some tweaks one can do to improve the drawing area. Minimizing toolbars\u00a0to improve the drawing area\u00a0can also be\u00a0useful for those users who spend a lot of time\u00a0reviewing drawings. 1. Size of ribbon can be set to text only menu, a compromise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[27,42,45,71,89],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support","tag-autocad","tag-drawing-area","tag-elmaster-design","tag-promaster-design","tag-toolbars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}