Need more space for a project? A quick click of a menu bar icon or press of a keyboard shortcut lets you easily switch to any available resolution. Please comment if you have great ideas for using tabs efficiently in ARCHICAD.Resolutionator makes it simple to use any of your display's available resolutions. He’s done a fantastic job for his part in bringing tabs into ARCHICAD 19! Consider even assigning a keyboard shortcut to this command.īuy James a beer next time you see him. Watch for the colored icons in the Tab Bar which alert you to special events.Ĭlick your mouse wheel on tabs to close them in quick succession or use the Window> Close All Other Tabs and Windows menu command.

Use the tab’s context menus to quickly access relevant settings.Ĭlick the new progress bar to Abort the generation of the viewpoint if you open it by mistake or notice a warning. Or if you prefer, undock the tabs and tile the windows next to each other and simply click from window to window. Use these keyboard shortcuts to quickly navigate between each. Close everything else.Īssign your own keyboard shortcuts to ‘Show Next Tab’ and ‘Show Previous Tab’, or use the default Ctrl/Cmd+Tab to switch to the next tab and Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Tab to switch to the previous tab.

If you’re working on an eave detail for example you may want to activate the roof plan, a section, an elevation, a detail and a layout tab. Remember that enabled tabs are used for predictive background processing, but keep in mind that this does not currently apply to Layouts, Manually rebuild windows (sections, elevations, etc.), Stories, Schedules, Project Indexes and Lists, so there’s no need to keep those tabs open for that purpose alone.ĭrag your tabs into an order that makes sense for the task at hand and close the rest. You'll soon learn what your computer is capable of.Ĭonsider setting your Work Environment profile to ‘prefer to open in an existing tab’ to help keep the number of enabled tabs down.

Keep an eye on your task manager or your activity monitor if you feel ARCHICAD getting sluggish.

Keep only 6 or 7 tabs open, but certainly no more than 20.

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