Action Pad

The Action Pad panel provides the most used commands.

To access the Action Pad panel, do one of the following:

Press b (temporary display only).
Right-click in the work area and select Display > Action Pad .
From the Tools section in the action bar , click Action Pad .


	Wireframe Displays an object in a mode where only its edges are visible. See 3DEXPERIENCE Platform User's Guide: Native Apps Common Services \| Basic Viewing Commands
	Shading with Edges Shades the object's surfaces with all its edges, whether smooth or hidden. See 3DEXPERIENCE Platform User's Guide: Native Apps Common Services \| Basic Viewing Commands
	Shading Shades the surfaces of an object and display its edges (including hidden and smooth ones) or the materials that have been applied onto it. See 3DEXPERIENCE Platform User's Guide: Native Apps Common Services \| Basic Viewing Commands
	Shading with Material Displays the material applied onto your object. See 3DEXPERIENCE Platform User's Guide: Native Apps Common Services \| Basic Viewing Commands
	Light Manager Manipulates light sources along predefined circles that are centered on the light target. See Manipulating Light Sources. This command is available in ICEM Shape Morphing .


	View Selector Lets you quickly switch between standard views. See 3D EXPERIENCE Native Apps : Native Apps Basics: Basic Viewing Commands
	Parallel Displays objects in a parallel view. See 3D EXPERIENCE Native Apps : Native Apps Basics: Basic Viewing Commands
	Perspective Displays objects in a perspective view. See 3D EXPERIENCE Native Apps : Native Apps Basics: Basic Viewing Commands
	Stretch View Indicates a rectangular region in the current view to be stretched to the maximum visible size. A scaling factor can be defined. See Using the Stretch View Analysis Tool.
	Soft Mirror Performs a mirror analysis of geometrical elements without adding the feature to the tree. See Performing a Soft Mirror Analysis. This command is available in all FreeStyle Shape Design apps except FreeStyle Shape Analysis .


	Fit All In Zooms the geometry in or out. See 3D EXPERIENCE Native Apps : Native Apps Basics: Basic Viewing Commands
	Normal View Views objects along a perpendicular to a selected plane. See 3D EXPERIENCE Native Apps : Native Apps Basics: Basic Viewing Commands
	Reverse Viewpoint Inverts the viewpoint from the current viewer, either from the Robot orientation or from the default view. See Defining Views.
	Previous View Displays the previous view. See 3D EXPERIENCE Native Apps : Native Apps Basics: Basic Viewing Commands
	Next View Displays the next view. See 3D EXPERIENCE Native Apps : Native Apps Basics: Basic Viewing Commands


	Visualization Sectioning Lets you add up to three independent section planes, modify their position and orientation independently from each other. See 3D EXPERIENCE Native Apps : Native Apps Advanced: Additional Viewing Commands: Using Section Planes
	Ruler Ruler Displays and manipulates 2D or 3D area coordinate axes. See About Rulers.
	Measure Item Measures properties associated with a selected item.
	Measure Between Measures the distance and angle between two items.
	Views Views the object from different angles and minages cameras for your scene. Select the view and then create the camera.


	Sketch See the Sketcher User's Guide.
	Point Creates a point.
	Line Creates a line.
	Plane Creates a plane.
	Create Robot plane Creates a plane corresponding to the Robot basis.
	Circle Creates circles and circular arcs.
	Boundary Creates the boundary curve of a surface or the boundary point of a curve by selecting a surface edge or a surface.
	Intersection Creates an intersection curve between several intersecting surfaces. See Creating Intersection Curves.


	3D Curve Creates a 3D curve using control points, possibly on a support element. See Creating Curves Using Control Points.
	Isoparametric Curve Creates an isoparametric curve on a surface. See Creating Isoparametric Curves on Surfaces.
	Curve Projection Projects a curve onto a surface. See Creating Project Curves.
	Blend Curve Creates a NURBS blend curve between between two end points on given curves. See Creating Blend Curves.
	Styling Corner Creates a connecting curve of a given radius between two planar curves. See Creating Styling Corners.
	Intersection Creates an intersection curve between several intersecting surfaces. See Creating Intersection Curves.


	Planar Patch Creates a planar patch.
	Flange Creates a flange from a reference curve. See Creating Flanges.
	Patch From Curves Creates a surface from 2 to 4 curves. See Creating a Patch from Curves.
	Surface Offset Creates an offset surface, based on an existing surface. See Creating Offset Surfaces.
	Global Surface Offset Creates offset surfaces with constant distance from the original surfaces. See Creating Global Offset Surfaces. Note: This command is available in the ICEM Shape Morphing app .
	Blend Surface Creates a blend surface between surface edges or curves on surfaces. See Creating Blend Surfaces.
	Sweep Creates a profile either along a guide curve or by several profiles without using a guide curve. See Creating Swept Surfaces.
	FSS Styling Fillet Creates a styling fillet between two surfaces. See Creating a Styling Fillet.
	Advanced Fillet Creates fillet surfaces between sets of surfaces and curves used as support elements. See Creating Advanced Fillets. Note: This command is available in the ICEM Shape Morphing app .


	Loft Creates a lofted surface through multiple profiles in both U and V direction. See Creating Loft Surfaces. Note: This command is available in the ICEM Shape Morphing and ICEM Shape Design for Aero apps .
	Accelerated Surface Creates boundary surfaces of a stamped area are created with a constant given distance from a curve selected as spine curve. See Creating Accelerated Surfaces. Note: This command is available in the ICEM Shape Morphing app .
	Create Gap Creates crimp surfaces with a constant gap distance on a support surface. See Creating Gaps. Note: This command is available in the ICEM Shape Morphing app .
	Corner Fillet Creates corner fillet surfaces between sets of surfaces and curves used as support elements. See Creating Corner Fillets. Note: This command is available in the ICEM Shape Morphing app .
	Shape Modeling Modifies curves and surfaces via a reference geometry. See Modeling Shapes.


	Control Points Modifies a curve or a surface by manipulating control points. See Using Control Points.
	Extrapolation (Datum) Extrapolates curves and surfaces. See Extrapolating Curves and Surfaces (ICEM Shape Design command).
	Extrapolation (Feature) Extrapolates curves and surfaces. See Extrapolating Curves and Surfaces (ICEM Shape Design command).
	Break... Trims a surface or a curve into two or more parts by using any combination of points, curves, planes, and surfaces. See Breaking Surfaces. Breaking Curves
	Split Splits a surface or wireframe element using a cutting element.
	Matching Constraint Connects surfaces using a range of continuity constraints. See Creating a Matching Constraint.
	Smoothing Smoothes out irregularities. See Smoothing curves and surfaces.
	Extract Extracts a face or a surface edge. See Extracting Elements.
	Symmetry Transforms geometry using a mirror symmetry with respect to a reference plane, line, or point.
	Feature Modeling Modifies a feature. See Modeling Features. This command is available in the ICEM Shape Morphing app .


	Untrim Restores the trimmed curve or surface to its original shape.
	Join Assemble adjacent curves or surfaces to one element.
	Disassemble Disassembles multi-cell curves or surfaces into mono-cell or mono-domain curves or surfaces. See Disassembling Shapes.
	Curve Conversion Creates a curve by approximating a set of input data. See Converting Curves.
	Surface Conversion Converts a multi-cell surface to a single cell surface. See Converting Surfaces.


	Porcupine Curvature Analysis Creates a visual representation of the point, tangent, and curvature continuity of curves and surfaces.
	Iso-Curvature Analysis Creates an analysis feature lying on a set of surfaces that displays the curvature according to the isoparametrics of a surface. See Analyzing Using Iso-Curvature.
	Cutting Plane Analysis Projects curves onto surfaces, each curve representing the intersection of a cutting plane with the surfaces.
	Highlight Analysis Creates a highlight surface diagnosis on shaded surfaces. See Analyzing Using Highlights.
	Distance Analysis Provides a visual representation of the distance between any two geometric elements or two sets of elements.
	Connect Checker Analysis Checks and analyzes how two surfaces or curves are connected to each other based on continuity, constraints, and tolerance.
	Surfacic Curvature Analysis Lets you assess the curvature of a surface.
	SSI Analysis Calculates the intersection line of two sets of surface elements. See Analyzing Using Surface-Surface Intersection.
	Curve Checker Checks sets of curves regarding their Class-A quality using user-defined parameters. See Performing a Curve Check.
	Surface Checker Checks sets of surfaces regarding their Class-A quality using user-defined parameters. See Performing a Surface Check.


	In Model or on Perch Switches the Robot from the perch to the model or vice versa. See Context Menus.
	UV Flip to UV or XY. See Context Menus.
	VW Flip to VW or YZ. See Context Menus.
	WU Flip to WU or ZX. See Context Menus.
	Most Seen Plane Enables the most seen plane option.
	Reset Robot Reset Robot to XYZ. See Context Menus.
	Set Robot Orientation Orients the Robot by selecting either an existing plane or three points. See Context Menus. Note: You can use Esc to exit the Set Robot Orientation , Set Robot to mean plane , and Set Robot to trace plane commands at any time during the command is running.
	Set Robot to mean plane Sets the Robot to the mean plane of the selected elements. See Context Menus.
	Set Robot to trace plane Sets the Robot to the trace plane. See Context Menus.