Getting started with 3D Design Plus

Tool Bars
The tool bar lets you select commonly used commands just by pressing a button. One of three tool bars will appear depending on what you're doing:

Drawing Tools
The drawing tool let you quickly select the next object you want to draw. Drawing tools appear until you either select an object or start a command, after which either the editing or point-setting bar appears.

Point Setting Tools
Whenever 3D Design Plus prompts you to enter one or more points, the Point-Setting tool bar appears. It helps you position the cursor at the desired location. The big red X is identical to pressing the ESC key and erases the last point or cancels the command if no points are set. The green check mark is identical to pressing the Enter key, and tells 3D Design Plus that you are through setting points.

Editing Tools
Once you select one or more objects, the toll bar displays some common editing and surface-generation commands that you can use.

Main and Alternative Views
3D Design Plus supports up to three simultaneous views, or viewports. The large window on the right of the screen is called the main view. The smaller windows on the left are called alternate views and are numbered 1 and 2 from top to bottom respectively. These views are your "windows" into the 3-dimensional world where you create and modify objects. You can adjust the apparent size of the object (zoom), location (pan), and viewing of each view separately.

Prompt Bar
The prompt bar (near the bottom of the window) contains the following fields:
+	Command - the currently active command displays here
+	Prompt - where 3D Design Plus prompts to enter one or 	more points.
+	Points - how many points you have set so far
+	Selected - what objects are currently selected.

Position Bar
The position bar contains the following fields:
X, Y, Z
These fields show you the current cursor position in the XYZ coordinate system. The units of measurement that these values represent are entirely up to you and can be changed using the Set Drawing Units command.

Layer
This field shows you the current layer number. 3D Design Plus will assign the next object drawn to this layer.

Color
This field contains the current color - the color that will be give to the next object drawn. The Edit Colors command can be invoked simply by clicking once on the color portion of this field.

Happy Designing!