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[BrianP.]

Much has been made about the ability to customize the interface. Was wondering what peoples screens look like. We could compare and get some ideas from each other. Right now mine is really basic with only a few modifications.

[crazy^millman]

Here you go.

 

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[Frank Caudillo]

31 minutes ago, JParis said:

Whatcha makin' there, J? Those fixtures looking oddly familiar, haha. 

Here's mine, nothing fancy. 

[BCW]

 

Gotta hide that hideous ribbon bar

[Guest]

49 minutes ago, Frank Caudillo said:

Whatcha makin' there, J? Those fixtures looking oddly familiar, haha. 

 

I could tell you but I'd have to kill you

Suffice to say it's not AR parts

[LA CAMmer]

BCW, I'm gonna give your layout a try.  I only have one monitor and I never thought about putting the Planes and Levels on the right side so they are always visible.

Thanks to all of you for posting screen shots.  Something so simple may vastly change the way I work.

Just curious BCW, what size monitor do you have?  I have a 26" and it looks like it may work.

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[BrianP.]

I do have a second monitor I keep Cimco up on. I use hot keys to toggle my managers. Interesting ideas. Better shots of quick access bars? Kinda hard to see. I see you have none JP ( Oops on top ) . I kinda parked my attribute tool bar at the bottom where it always has been. I asigned alt+Q as planes manager and clear colors as alt+w. Seems to tie in nicely with the default alt+z for level manager.

[jlw™]

Left side

right side

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, BrianP. said:

I do have a second monitor I keep Cimco up on. I use hot keys to toggle my managers. Interesting ideas. Better shots of quick access bars? Kinda hard to see. I see you have none JP. I kinda parked my attribute tool bar at the bottom where it always has been.

Nope, I find extra toolbars get in the way more often than not, if I have to move something it breaks my rhythm....living so hard on my RMB it allows me to keep my screen clean of what I feel are obtrusive dialogs....

I have reached the point that I am so attuned to my menu that I can most times pick what I want with just a quick move of the wrist, for most things I don't even have to really even look for where it is located, the now natural motion just takes me there..

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[jeff]

Nothing special here for me, I don't utilize my 2nd monitor much for Mastercam I mainly have a .PDF open on it.

But my toolbar is modded with as much as I could fit on 1 tab of my most used stuff.

 

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

My X9 layout, which I'm pretty happy with:

 

Side monitors are lower resolution.

 

When I eventually have to bite the bullet and go to 2018 or so I'll probably try copying Ron.

[kostiuk]

This is a great idea. After a post by JParis about using the right mouse button for almost everything I set that up and never looked back. I convinced one other guy in the shop to do it also and he loves it. So much faster. I've got the planes manager set up with alt+Q and that's about it.

Kevin K.

[Jayson Kramer]

I am really surprised to see so many still using the Axis Lines still. I find them useless and in the way.

So why do some of you still use it?

Is it because you always have used and just cannot see using the Gnomon?

 

[Leigh @ Kodiak]

[Guest]

I find the Gnomon Annoying AF. It always seemed to be in the way.

[Leigh @ Kodiak]

4 minutes ago, Foghorn Leghorn said:

I find the Gnomon Annoying AF. It always seemed to be in the way.

It took some getting used to but I prefer it now

[jlw™]

7 minutes ago, Foghorn Leghorn said:

I find the Gnomon Annoying AF. It always seemed to be in the way.

James, tell me how you really feel!  

[crazy^millman]

1 hour ago, Jay Kramer @ Precision Programming said:

I am really surprised to see so many still using the Axis Lines still. I find them useless and in the way.

So why do some of you still use it?

Is it because you always have used and just cannot see using the Gnomon?

 

Nope I like them as I am a visual person and when you are putting 8000 lb Gorillas in 10 lbs cages you need to know where you expect something to be will be where you expect it. Also when you are making planes and use a WCS in Rocket or Air Craft Space it nice to know you are snapping the WCS point to the WCS origin in either space you wanted. Nice to see the Origin Gnomon icon when you hit the origin but hard to find in aircraft or rocket space if you don't know where it is. 

[BenK]

Interesting topic. I have been moving everything I can to my right click menu. It's a work in progress. 

As for ribbon bar modifications, I combined the Solids with Model Prep and added a Addons tab. I'm still trying to figure out a way to customize it to my liking but until they add the ability to make custom drop down menus I don't see my disdain for the ribbon interface letting up.

I run dual 35" ultra wide monitors so I am able to leave my operations manager docked and still have plenty of screen real-estate to work with. My second monitor is usually full as well, with anything from Verify, Machine SIM and drawings to my Spotify. Its basically my catch all.

 

[jlw™]

I pretty much always keep the gnomon on and toggle the cross hairs with alt key when I need the reference.  I use both, on and off.  F9 and Alt+F9 are showing signs of wear.

[Frank Caudillo]

I hope it's not too off topic for this thread but, on the subject of the work space customization, has anyone had any issues with the Mastercam.workspace config file becoming corrupted and causing crashes on startup? It happened to me once a few months ago and just did it again yesterday afternoon. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Frank Caudillo said:

I hope it's not too off topic for this thread but, on the subject of the work space customization, has anyone had any issues with the Mastercam.workspace config file becoming corrupted and causing crashes on startup? It happened to me once a few months ago and just did it again yesterday afternoon. 

I've not, others have...always a good idea to keep a backup file....making a z2g is usally a good idea to capture everything as a "just in case"

[Frank Caudillo]

3 minutes ago, JParis said:

I've not, others have...always a good idea to keep a backup file....making a z2g is usally a good idea to capture everything as a "just in case"

Good idea. I'll do that once I get everything back the way it was, lol. 

[Jayson Kramer]

16 hours ago, 5th Axis CGI said:

Nope I like them as I am a visual person and when you are putting 8000 lb Gorillas in 10 lbs cages you need to know where you expect something to be will be where you expect it. Also when you are making planes and use a WCS in Rocket or Air Craft Space it nice to know you are snapping the WCS point to the WCS origin in either space you wanted. Nice to see the Origin Gnomon icon when you hit the origin but hard to find in aircraft or rocket space if you don't know where it is. 

So Ron you like the Gnomon or you like Axis Lines for this reason? I like to have the gnomon to see all what you are talking about and can always tell were the Postive derections of the part are.
Also when this is active that you get the Cplane and Tplane views so like you stated visual of what is going on. Were the axis lines give you min but a origin only

This why I am asking and some of my thoughts.