Working Environment

The workspace has replaced the old house type. The house type stored data in a significantly more global manner, which often resulted in not truly knowing what was stored in the house type. Since the options for saving settings were substantially expanded starting with version 8 (see chapter Saving Settings), a new tool became necessary. The workspace therefore provides a powerful tool for managing, backing up, and distributing settings.

The workspace serves, on the one hand, to back up one’s own settings. Although in each individual function one can copy or reload settings to another location via the 'Data Exchange', the workspace also allows access to the settings from all functions via the Data Exchange. Thus, in a dialog box you can sequentially copy all settings you wish to back up to the desired location.

On the other hand, the workspace is used to adapt the program to the respective circumstances. For example, a workspace 'Timber Frame Construction', a workspace 'Log Construction', and a workspace 'Solid Construction' would be conceivable. Depending on what needs to be entered at the moment, you load the respective workspace with all settings necessary for the input. All other settings that are irrelevant for the current task disappear. The system becomes clearer and the required functions are available more quickly and easily.

Service providers who perform production planning for various timber construction companies can use workspaces to very quickly load all settings for the tools that should be used for the respective company. This also provides a higher degree of assurance that the correct processing options were used for each client.

Since settings can also affect the icon bars (see Favorites above), the icon bars of a model area can also be saved within a workspace. In this way the entire program can be fully adapted to personal requirements with three clicks.

When settings are saved, many different files are created within the system in which these settings are stored. When you now save a workspace, a copy of the files is created in another directory. Only the files that you have individually marked in the Data Exchange, or that you have chosen via the "coarse selection", are copied. A workspace thus consists of a set of these settings, which reside in many different files, and these files are located outside the program system. When you load a workspace, the files of that workspace are copied over the files in the program system. Of course, only the files contained in the workspace are exchanged. For example, if you load a workspace 'Log Construction' and it contains only settings for walls and log construction, only the wall and log construction settings in the program system will be overwritten. Settings for the roof, etc., remain unaffected.

WARNING:

Because loading a workspace overwrites the corresponding files in the system, the settings you previously had in the system that are also present in the loaded workspace will be lost. Example: A setting 'Tenon 4x4' currently exists in the system but not in workspace 'B'. As soon as you load workspace 'B' and that workspace contains tenon settings, the tenon settings in the system will be overwritten and the tenon setting 'Tenon 4x4' will disappear. Therefore, it may be advisable to back up the current settings before loading a workspace. However, the system will prompt for this automatically when loading a workspace.