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

  9. Prompt Menu

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
    If the Enable flag of the AUTOCOMPLETEMODE system variable is set, command entries are completed automatically.

    Do one of the following:

  5. Press Enter if the currently completed command displays.

  6. Choose a command in the Suggestion list.

 

Autocomplete options are:

 

  1. 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.

  • Use the arrow-up and arrow-down keys of the keyboard to browse the command history.

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 edit the Snap and Grid settings.

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

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

  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 edit the Polar Tracking settings.

  1. Entity Snaps:

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

  3. right click, then choose Settings  to edit the Entity Snaps settings.

  1. Snap Tracking (AutoSnap):

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

  3. right click, then choose Settings  to edit 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
    Right click the Workspace field, then choose a layout to open.

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

  2. Dynamic UCS: click to toggle the Dynamic UCS feature ON () or Off ().

  1. Dynamic Dimensions:

  2. click to toggle the display of Dynamic Dimensions On () or Off ().

  3. right click, then choose Settings  to edit the Dynamic Dimensions settings.

  1. Subentity Selection:

  2. click to toggle the Subentity Selection On ()or Off ().

  3. right click, then choose Settings to edit the Subentity Selection settings.

  1. Quad Display:

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

  3. right click, then choose Settings to edit the Quad settings.

 

NOTE

Orthogonal mode (field 10) is switched off if Polar Tracking (field 11) 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

To toggle scroll bars on / off:

  1. (option) Hold down the Shift key, then press the F4 function key.

  2. (option) Choose Scroll Bars in the View menu.

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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