Context Toolbars

Context toolbars are smart toolbars that contain only those commands that can be applied to the current selection.

Commands are organized in categories. To change a command, just pause over it and select a new command or option from the vertical toolbar that appears.

The most commonly used commands are listed below.

This page discusses:

Draw

Draw on Grid

Lets you draw on a smart grid that helps you create and precisely position your drawing relative to underlying geometry.

See About the Support Plane.

Draw in 3D

Lets you draw in 3D.

See About the Support Plane.

Open Profile

Lets you draw lines, arcs, points and spline curves.

See Drawing Lines, Arcs and Points and Drawing Spline Curves.

Closed Profile

Lets you draw circles, rectangles, ellipses and polygons.

See Drawing Circles, Rectangles, Ellipses and Polygons

Line

See Drawing Lines, Arcs and Points

Arc

Lets you draw an arc using the Tangent Arc or the Three-Point Arc command.

See Drawing Lines, Arcs and Points

Spline

See Drawing Spline Curves

Point

See Drawing Lines, Arcs and Points

3D Constraints

See Adding 3D Constraints and Equations.

Distance
Fix
Coincidence
Perpendicular
Parallel
Tangency
Angle
Radius
Driving Dimension

Sets the dimension type to driving. This is the default type.

Driving dimensions are user-defined and constrain geometry to the value specified. They do not update to reflect changes to content such as element moves.

Driven Dimension

Sets the dimension type to driven.

Driven dimensions are measured dimensions. They update to reflect changes to content, but cannot be edited. Driven dimensions appear with brackets around the dimension value, for example, (30).

Reroute

Lets you change the anchor point of a constraint.

Orient the constraint

Lets you control how elements move with respect to each other. Orienting a constraint determines which side moves. An arrow shows the side that changes.

No orientation

The system controls how elements move with respect to each other.

Angle Sector 1 to 4

Controls how the angle in angle constraints is measured.

Activate

Applies the selected constraint.

Deactivate

Turns off the selected constraint.

Equations

Creates non-oriented linear equation-driven dimensions based on existing 3D dimensions.