Menu Item

Sub Menu

Description

Tool Panels

Project Explorer

Toggle the visibility of the Project Explorer Tool Panel

Draw Cables

Toggle the visibility of the Draw Cables Tool Panel

Drawing Properties

Toggle the visibility of the Drawing Properties Tool Panel

Find and Replace

Toggle the visibility of the Find and Replace Tool Panel

Plan View Tools

Toggle the visibility of the Plan View Tools Tool Panel

Favorites

Toggle the visibility of the Favorites Tool Panel

Command Line

Toggle the visibility of the Command Line Tool Panel

Show Start Page

Toggle the visibility of the Start Page

Skin Gallery

Select the look and feel of the application

Switch Windows

{Current Window Set}

Toggle the active window

Menu Item

Sub Menu

Description

Pan

Reposition of the view. This can be better done with the mouse wheel of your mouse. Depress the mousewheel to click the button underneath it to activate the PAN mode.

NOTE: this relies on your mouse driver middle button set to default.

Zoom In

Zoom command allows the user to increase or decrease the apparent size of objects , so the user can control the part of the drawing that is included in the screen.

Zoom command is a transparent command.

Transparent commands are commands that can be invoked when another command is active.

Remarks

There are several ways to execute the zoom command:

"E"(Extends) Zooms to display the drawing extents

"P"(Previous) Zooms to display the previous view

"W"(Window) Zooms to display an area specified by two opposite corners of a rectangular window. User must specify these two corners.

"A"(All) zooms to the drawing limits or current extents, whichever is greater.

Zoom Out

Zoom Extents

Zoom Window

Zoom All

Zoom Previous

Zoom Scale

Show the Zoom Scale dialog. Zooms the display at a specified scale factor. For example, entering 2 doubles the apparent display size of any objects from what it would be if you were zoomed to the limits of the drawing. Entering 0.5 causes each object to be displayed at half its current size on the screen.

Regenerate

Re render the entire drawing.

New Viewport

Viewports are areas that display different views of your model. As you work, you can split the drawing area into one or more adjacent rectangular views known as model viewports. In large or complex drawings, displaying different views reduces the time needed to zoom or pan in a single view. Also, errors you might miss in one view may be apparent into others.

ViewPorts are treated as rectangle drawing objects which display views and can be moved or resized.

They can be created only a layout and not in Model space.

You can also attach viewports to closed polygons (polylines, circles, ellipses, rectangles).

New Viewport from Polygon

Activate Viewport

None

Turn off all object snaps. An object snap(Osnap) mode specifies a snap point at an exact location on an object. Osnap specifies running object snap modes, which remain active until you turn them off.

End

End Point snap

Mid

Mid Point snap

Center

Center snap

Ins

Insertion Point snap

Perp

Perpendicular To snap

Near

Nearest snap. This one overrides all others.

Inter

Intersection snap

Node

Point snap

Quad

Quadrant snap

Tang

Tangential To snap

AppInt

Apparent Intersection snap

Disable

Toggle currently selected OSnap state

All

Enable/Disable all.

Measure Distance

Measure the distance in Drawing Units(DU) between two points selected from the drawing.

Area

Measure the area of a selected object.

ID

Get the drawing ID of the selected object.