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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 com-
mon 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 tool-
bar 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 tool-
bar 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.