Transparent Toolbar

HiCAD provides a transparent toolbar for a quick and direct access to frequently required functions, such as zoom, switching of the identification mode or shading functions. The transparent toolbar is displayed in the drawing area.

Use the icon to hide and redisplay the transparent toolbar.

Function		Key
	Object/Element/Group snap Activates the identification mode . HiCAD supports several identification modes, enabling you to reduce the number of mouse-clicks required to perform an action, thus speeding up the design process. The mode changes when you click the icon.
	Show all parts Shows all parts of the drawing, i.e. deactivated, hidden parts will be redisplayed again.
	Show only active part Hides all deactivated parts of the drawing. This function can, for instance, be helpful for the processing of parts in complex drawings.
	Redraw Deletes the current drawing detail and redraws it subsequently.	DEL
	View all Determines the smallest possible representation of the drawing containing all parts of the drawing and displays it as large as possible.	HOME
	Rectangular zoom window Use this function to define a rectangular drawing detail via specification of 2 points. Right-click to activate a menu containing further zoom functions. The drawing detail can also be determined with the left mouse button: Press and hold down the left mouse button and draw the required rectangle. The drawing area within the rectangle is now displayed as large as possible. By placing the rectangle appropriately, you can also move the drawing detail.	END
	Processing plane When designing in 3-D, you can define arbitrary processing planes as drawing planes. This means that the drawing can directly be processed in a spatial view.
	New view Creates a new view.
	Glass model (3-D) Displays 3-D models as glass models, i.e. all edges (including the hidden ones), are visible.
	Hidden Line (3-D) Displays the 3-D models in Hidden Line mode, i.e. the edges are displayed in the surface colour, hidden edges are not displayed.
	Quick Hidden Line (3-D) Displays 3-D models in Quick Hidden Line mode, i.e. the edges are displayed in the surface colour, hidden edges are not displayed. This type of representation is used for an accelerated image formation; it is, however, unsuitable for print output.
	Quick Hidden Grey (3-D) Displays the edges in surface colour and the hidden edges in grey.
	Shaded with edges (3-D)
	Shaded without edges (3-D)
	Rotate view Enables you to rotate views with the mouse.
	Standard AXO Activates the Engineering axonometry 2.
	Front view
	Side view, from left
	Top view
	Active XY-plane in screen plane Rotates the view in such a way that the XY-plane lies in the screen plane.

If you right-click the functions of the transparent toolbar, context menus with further functions are displayed.