When you start solidThinking, the Application toolbar is displayed by default on the upper left of the screen.
If you click its border, you can drag it and obtain a floating panel that can be quickly shown/hidden by choosing the Managers > Application toolbar menu item or using its shortcut.
The Application toolbar includes two icons used to identify the two main working modes of the program: Object mode and Edit mode. A third icon on the same row is used for the Group mode. They are explained in the next topic.
In the row below, three icons, used in combination with the transformation tools, let you constrain points insertion and transformations as follows:
X-axis
Transformations are applied only to the X-axis.
Y-axis
Transformations are applied only to the Y-axis.
Z-axis
Transformations are applied only to the Z-axis.
The next three icons are:
Zoom extent all
Zooms all the orthographic views in or out so that all graphic components are displayed. The same icon, but smaller, appears on the title bar of each view. Click this small icon to apply the zoom extent to a single view.
Center selected all
Centers selected objects in all the orthographic views so that only selected components are displayed. The same icon, but smaller, appears on the title bar of each view. Click this small icon to apply the center selected to a single view.
Ortho adjust
Forces all the orthographic views to have the same zoom and view point as the selected one.
The last three icons represent the three main libraries whose contents are displayed in the Libraries toolbar:
Actions
The Actions library contains numerous modeling tools that allow you to apply transformations, deform shapes, draw curves, create surfaces from curves, edit surfaces, work on polymeshes, add primitives, cameras, and lights.
Materials
The Materials library holds a number of materials provided with the package. This library can however be expanded and be used to store any of your custom materials. For more details click here.
Models
Just as the Materials, the Models library is easily extensible and it can be used to store 3D models. Fore more details click here.