Menus and Toolbars

NEW - Shortcut Menu: commands and toggle options that you use many times.

Menus - with the commands in a pseudo-ribbon, at the top of the application window.

Toolbars - above, below, left, and right of the workspace .

The active Menus and Toolbars are contextual to the active editor.

Top-Tip

Workspace

The workspace is the graphics-area with its name-tab.

The workspace is the same for all three editors:

•Model-Editor

•Mechanism-Editor

•Part-Editor

You add different types of elements to each editor, and to build your model.

Project-Explorer

It is to the left of the graphics-area.

It is a summary of the element in your model.

See more: Project-Explorer

Feedback-Area

It is below the graphics-area.

It provides messages, hints, Slider to move your model to different positions in the machine cycle.

See more: Feedback-Area

MotionDesigner

It is docked (default) to the right of the graphics-area.

See more: MotionDesigner

Memo

A memo shows when you start MechDesigner the first time.

To turn the Memo off, deselect the Open Automatically at Start check-box at the bottom and left of the memo.

See more: Memo