Toolbars. Autodesk AUTOSKETCH 8

Toolbars

Clicking a button on a toolbar has the same effect as choosing the menu item or operating mode it represents.

A toolbar often contains more buttons than are practical to display at once.

Because of this, buttons are divided into toolsets. Each toolset contains a group of buttons that represent similar functions. For instance, all of the polyline tools are located in one toolset. Only one button from a toolset is visible at a time—normally, the one used most recently. Even when you initiate an action or mode by other means, the corresponding button, if it is present in a toolbar, is made the current one in its toolset. For example, if you type the letter X to switch to the X-axis lock modifier, the Lock Modifier toolset in the All-In-One toolbar is updated to reflect the change. Buttons that contain hidden toolsets contain a small arrow in the lower right corner.

To select a button that is not visible, click the top button and hold for a moment. When the complete toolset appears, drag the pointer to the button you want and release.

The Standard toolbar contains buttons that perform some of the most common tasks in AutoSketch, such as opening, copying, and printing files, and so on. Buttons on the left side of the Standard toolbar are exactly the same as other toolbars in Microsoft Office-compatible products. The Standard toolbar also contains the context-sensitive Help button, which you can use to display pop-up window Help on buttons or anything else in the AutoSketch application window.

You can move a toolbar to almost any location in the AutoSketch window by clicking near its left edge then dragging it to its new location. Toolbars can also be docked alongside one another. To dock a toolbar, simply click and drag the toolbar alongside another toolbar.

The All-In-One, Standard, and other built-in toolbars (such as the Snap toolbar which contains tools for activating snaps) are predefined and cannot be changed. You can create other toolbars, however, and configure them as you like. In a custom toolbar you can specify which buttons to include, how the buttons are grouped, and the name of the toolbar. For every toolbar you can specify location and whether to hide or display it. You can change the button size used in all toolbars. For information on how to customize a toolbar, see

“Creating Custom Toolbars” in online Help.

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