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- Groups palette
- Drag the Title bar to reposition the palette.
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- Click the Close box to turn the palette display “off”.
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- Click the Window shade box to “compress” the palette, and move it off View
- windows; click on Window shade button on “compressed” palette to expand
- the palette, and move it back to its previous position over View windows.
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- Click on a list/chart item to select it (bounding box selection).
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- Double-click on a list/chart item to access its Info dialog box.
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- “I” column
- Insertion pointer (red, right-pointing arrow) indicates list-position for next
- item insertion. Drag the arrow in the column. (When an item(s) is
- added/created in the database, its position in the list is determined by the
- Insertion pointer.)
- “D” column (radio buttons)
- Controls item display in View windows; black indicates item displays
- normally (wire frame); white indicates item display is “off”; gray indicates
- bounding box display (Option-click in column). Click in column next to item
- to toggle “on/off”.
- Name list
- Hierarchical list of all items in the database. To rearrange the list items:
- select an item; drag it to a new position in the list; or cut the item, and paste
- it into the list (Insertion pointer determines new position).
- List-item icons
- Pencil icon
- represents individual object.
- Folder icon (aka parent)
- represents a group of items (aka children); gray, right-pointing arrow next
- to a folder indicates closed folder (items in the folder are not shown in the
- list); click on arrow to open folder (gray, down-pointing arrow next to a
- folder (items in the folder are shown in the list)).
- Broken pencil icon
- represents Morphable Spline Mesh object (v3.2 or later).
- Book icon
- represents Library item, or an insertion of a Library item. Drag an item
- from this palette onto the Libraries palette to convert the item to a
- Library item.
- File Cabinet icon
- represents an assembly “folder” item-type (i.e. Boolean difference folder).
- Lock/Unlock buttons
- Red, closed padlock button
- Select a list item; click on the Lock button; red, closed padlock shows
- next to the list item, and holds item geometry from changes.
- Green, open padlock button
- Select a “locked” list item; click on the Unlock button; removes the red
- padlock from the list; frees item geometry to changes.
- Chart/List palette view button
- Controls Groups palette display mode; click on button to toggle between
- Chart and List display modes.
- List mode
- Described above.
- Chart mode
- Displays database in “tree” hierarchy (similar to organizational chart).
- Item rearrangement is not possible (most other functions same as List
- mode). The database is represented at the top (folder-box labeled
- “Design”). Each item in the data base is represented by a box. Each box
- shows the item name, list-item type icon, and item display radio button;
- gray, right-pointing arrow at the bottom of a folder indicates closed folder
- (items in the folder are not shown in the chart). Click on the gray arrow to
- toggle “on/off” the display of folder items in the chart.
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