TASKBAR System Variable
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Since most of my work as structural designer means working with Autocad on a daily basis, it is must better for me to have separate multiple drawings on my taskbar rather than having all open in one CAD session.
If you are in the same predicament, you can set this up in AutoCAD by turning on the TASKBAR variable, which is normally <0> by default. You can normally use the CTRL-TAB or CTRL-F6 to switch between drawings, but with the change in the variable to <1>, you will be able to use the CTRL-ALT key combination as well.
To make the change, type in “TASKBAR” on the command line (while AutoCAD is running). Then, change the variable. The two options are:
0 - one taskbar item for all open drawings
1- multiple taskbar items for all open drawings.
Until next time,
Fernando Salgado
If you are in the same predicament, you can set this up in AutoCAD by turning on the TASKBAR variable, which is normally <0> by default. You can normally use the CTRL-TAB or CTRL-F6 to switch between drawings, but with the change in the variable to <1>, you will be able to use the CTRL-ALT key combination as well.
To make the change, type in “TASKBAR” on the command line (while AutoCAD is running). Then, change the variable. The two options are:
0 - one taskbar item for all open drawings
1- multiple taskbar items for all open drawings.
Until next time,
Fernando Salgado
