The Assistant Palette has been specifically designed to
give you information and guide you through your first projects with Amapi 3D. It will help
you get acquainted with your software quickly. Once you are familiar with it, you can turn
off the Assistant Palette, which will give you a larger work space. (See chapter User
Manual/Edit/Preferences/Interface/Assistant Palette.)
The Assistant Palette is displayed at the top of the screen. It is divided into
different parts.
1. The Online help provides information and guides you through any
modeling step.
2. The command button icons allow you to quit an action at any time,
validate it, undo it, or redo it.
3. The Selection tools are used to select groups of objects, points,
and groups of points or facets.
4. The Reference Point tool allows you to set the reference point,
for example, the center of rotation.
5. This set of three buttons allows you to specify constraints on
the movement and position of the cursor.
6. A +/- Tuner allows you to control at any time the
precision of an action, number of points, axes step size, definition of values, etc. or
the range of action of a tool.
7. Finally, this area displays the different modes available for the
current tool.
See chapter User Manual/Tools/Assistant Palette for
more details.
Please
note that you can access most of those features using keyboard shortcuts (single key or
key combinations) that you will learn very quickly. Then you wont need the Assistant
Palette and can have a larger work space. (See chapter User
Manual/Preferences/Interface/Assistant Palette.)