The Bricscad Application Window

The layout of the Bricscad application window can be fully customized.

You can:

 

Components of the Bricscad application window:

  1. Menu Bar

  2. Toolbar (docked)

  3. Drawing windows

  4. Drawing viewports

  5. Properties Bar

  6. Toolbar (floating)

  7. Command bar

  8. Status Bar

Open / Close the command bar

Do one of the following:

The Command Window closes if it was open and vice versa.

  1. Close button

  2. Press and hold the left mouse button to move the command bar

  3. Command History List  field: the content of the history list field can be copied to the command edit field.

  4. Command Edit field

  5. Command history scroll buttons

 

NOTES

  • You can modify the height of the docked command window by dragging its top edge, when docked Lower or bottom edge, when docked Upper.

  • The size of a floating command bar can be adjusted by dragging one of its edges.

  • When the command bar is closed, command options and keyboard entries display in the status bar.

To set the command line properties

  1. Open the Settings window.

  2. Go to Program Options / User Preferences / Command Line.

Open / Close the status bar

Do one of the following:

The Status Bar closes if it was open and vice versa.

Working with the status bar

 

The Status Bar fields are:

  1. Status:

  2. displays the status of the software.

  3. when the cursor is in a menu or on a toolbar: gives a brief description of the tool or menu item.

  4. when the command window is closed: displays the tool options and keyboard entry.

  5. double click to open/close the Command Bar.

  1. Coordinates: displays the coordinates of the current cursor position (depending on the setting of the COORDS variable).

  2. Right click, then choose Off, Relative  or Absolute in the context menu.

  3. Click to cycle the Coordinate setting. The sequence is Off, Relative, Absolute.

  1. Layer: displays the name of the current layer.

  2. click to open the Layer Explorer.

  3. right click to select the current layer

  1. Color: displays the current color.

  2. click to open the Select Color dialog window.

  3. right click to select one of the basic colors.

  1. Linetype: displays the name of the current linetype.

  2.  click to open the Linetype Explorer.

  3. right click to select the current linetype

  1. Text Style: displays the name of the current text style.

  2. click to open the Styles Explorer.

  3. right click to select the current text style.

  1. Dimension Style: displays the name of the current dimension style

  2. click to open the Dimensions Settings dialog window.

  3. right click to select the current dimension style.

  1. Snap:

  2. click to toggle Snap on () /off ().

  3. right click, then choose Settings to get access to the Snap and Grid settings.

  1. Grid: click to toggle the display of grid points on () / off () in the current viewport.

  2. Orthogonal Mode: click to toggle Orthogonal mode on () /off ().
    Turning Orthogonal mode on automatically disables Polar Tracking.

  3. Entity Snaps:

  4. click to toggle Entity Snaps on () / off ().

  5. right click, then choose Settings  to get access to the Entity Snaps settings.

  1. Polar Tracking (AutoSnap):

  2. click to toggle Polar Tracking on () / off ().
    Turning Polar Tracking  on automatically disables Orthogonal mode.

  3. right click, then choose Settings  to get access to the Polar Tracking settings.

  1. Snap Tracking (AutoSnap):

  2. click to toggle Snap Tracking on () /off ().

  3. right click, then choose Settings  to get access to the Snap Tracking settings.

  1. Line Weight Display:

  2. click to toggle the display of Line Weights On () or Off ().

  3. right click, then choose On or Off  to control the display of Line Weights.

  1. Current Workspace.

  2. Tile : Model space with tiled viewports.

  3. M:Layout : Model space with floating viewports

  4. P:Layout : Paper space

  1. Tablet: Initializes the use of a drawing tablet.

 

NOTE

Orthogonal mode (field 10) is switched off if Polar Tracking (field 14) is on and vice versa.

To customize the status bar

  1. Click the down arrow button () at the right end of the status bar.
    The status options display.

  2. Do one of the following:

  3. Click an unmarked field name to add it to the status bar.

  4. Click a marked field name to remove it from the status bar.

Display or hide scroll bars

  1. (option) To toggle scroll bars on / off: choose Scroll Bars in the View menu.

  2. (option) Type scrollbar in the command bar, then do one of the following:

  3. type off in the command bar or choose Off in the context menu.

  4. type on in the command bar or choose On in the context menu.

  5. type T in the command bar or choose Toggle in the context menu.

 

 

 

 

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