Finding Your Way in the Inventor Interface - Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required - page 32

The General Tab
Tools on the General tab (see Figure 1.24) tell Inventor how you want the pro-
gram to start, what name you want recorded as the author for fi les that you cre-
ate, and other basics:
Start-up The Show Help on Start-up option lets you bring up the Help system
every time you open Inventor. If you want to use this, and you're an experienced
AutoCAD user, you may want to consider switching the focus of the Help system
to the one for AutoCAD users.
Start-up Action Inventor 2010 has no start-up action by default, but you may
choose to enable this option. As discussed earlier, the Open dialog box allows
you to switch to the New dialog box, but in this section you can change whether
Inventor starts with Open or New. You can also have Inventor begin a new fi le
based on a specifi c template.
Tooltip Appearance This is an interesting set of options. The fi rst option lets
you disable or change the wait time for the initial tooltip. Below that, you can
disable the second-tier progressive tooltip. Finally, you can disable the preview
of the documents displayed when you hover over the Document tab at the bot-
tom of the Design window.
Selection The Enable Optimized Selection option may be useful if you're using
Inventor on a system with limited graphics performance. It sets the selection
and highlighting to initially highlight only the parts that are closest to the front
in the display. Enable Enhanced Highlighting displays the geometry selected to
create an assembly constraint if you hover over the constraint in the browser.
This is a fantastic aid in navigating an assembly that someone else built.
The Colors Tab
To change the overall look of Inventor, the Colors tab (see Figure 1.25) has the
tools for the job. Many users simply change the color scheme, but several other
options can be useful:
Color Scheme Inventor has several standard color schemes that control the
color of the graphics window background, highlighted elements, and sketch
elements.
Background Inventor can use a single color, a gradient of colors, or any stan-
dard raster image as a background for the graphics window. It comes with a
library already installed.