Customizing Your User Interface
User Interface (UI) is a software development term that means all the buttons and menus and stuff on the screen that allow you to interact with a computer program. As with most software, you can customize some of the UI in SketchUp to suit your modeling workflows.
In this chapter, we will look at what can (and cannot) be customized and try to figure out what changes to the UI will be most beneficial in helping you to level up your SketchUp skills. This means diving deep and learning exactly what UI elements are available to you in SketchUp as well as what elements can and cannot be customized. Specifically, we will be covering the following:
- Reviewing screen layout
- Deciding how many toolbars are needed
- Setting up trays and dialogs
- Organizing a custom UI
- Creating a next-level workspace
Let’s start by looking at the different elements and seeing how they can be customized. Once we have a firm understanding of what...
