1.2 Tabbed Popup Windows

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Like many other applications, 3D-Coat allows you to customize your workspace to suit your needs. You can hide or show windows, move tabbed popup windows around and even dock/undock them, or turn them into floating windows. If you don’t need or want to see a particular window, simply close it. You can always bring it back into the interface through the Window menu at any time. Customizing your workspace makes 3D-Coat work in the way that best suits your needs and workflow.
Let’s take a look at how you can work with the interface. We’ll start off by moving tabbed popup windows around. We will discuss how to undock and dock tabbed windows and even how to create floating windows. Tabbed windows are flexible in that you can change their widths and lengths and also their locations. This can be helpful if you’re using 3D-Coat on a notebook computer and need to get as much screen real estate as possible to model or to do texture work. Place your mouse along the edge or border of a tabbed window. When your cursor turns into a double-headed arrow, drag your mouse to resize the window.

To show a tab that you may have closed, or to explore tabs available for your use, go to the Window menu.

From here you can choose a tab to reveal in the interface. A great way to learn about the tools in 3D-Coat is to open windows and to explore all of the functionality contained within it.

Moving a tabbed window to a new location is easy. You may want to move a tabbed window into another cluster of tabs. A good example may be to drag all windows that deal with colors or pens in a cluster so you can quickly find them.

Place your mouse over the tab and drag it to a new location.

Let go of the mouse when you see a blue outline. The position of the outline will determine which part of the window the tab will occupy. Let go of the mouse and the tabbed window will dock where the blue outline appeared.

Don’t worry if you placed it in the wrong location. You can always reposition tabbed windows until you’re satisfied with their locations.

You can create a floating window if you’d like by dragging the tab away from the tabbed window group it once occupied. Let go of the mouse and it will float as it’s own independent window.

You can dock a floating window back into any cluster of windows by dragging and dropping the window when you see the blue line.