A workspace is an arrangement of the dock: which panels are open, where they sit and how big they are. Brio ships five preset workspaces and lets you save your own.
Built-in workspaces
| Name | Layout |
|---|---|
| Motion | Project on the left, Viewer in the centre, Layers above Properties on the right, full-width Timeline below with Labels to its left. The Graph Editor is closed. |
| Design | Project, Color & Swatches and Library stacked on the left, the Viewer, History over Align, then Layers over Properties on the far right. The Timeline is folded down to its header. |
| Drawing | X-Sheet (with Project tabbed behind it) left of the Viewer, Color & Swatches over Properties (Layers tabbed behind) on the right, and a short Timeline. |
| Editing | A wide Project panel, a small Layers panel over Properties, and a tall Timeline. |
| Audio | Project, Viewer, Layers over Properties, a tall Timeline with the Mixer and the Audio meter to its right. |
Switching and saving
Open the workspace menu (in the title bar on macOS, at the right of the menu bar on Windows and Linux; it is also a submenu of the Window menu on macOS).
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Workspace names | Switch to that workspace. Presets are listed first, your own below. |
| Save Changes to "name" | Store the current arrangement under the active workspace's name. |
| Save Layout As… | Save the current arrangement as a new workspace and name it. |
| Reset "name" | Rebuild a preset workspace in its original layout. Only shown for presets. |
| Rename / delete icons | Shown on your own workspaces only. |
Tips
- Saved layouts that refer to a panel plugin you have since removed simply skip that panel.
- To get back a panel you closed, use the Window menu rather than resetting the whole workspace.