Settings

Settings

One of HiCAD's advantages consists in the numerous customisation options it offers. This applies to the user interface or the drawing background as well as to the most diverse system parameters. The Settings menu that you activate via the icon at the top right of the HiCAD window offers the following customisation functions:

Use this function to start the Configuration Editor ISDCONFIGEDITOR.EXE. This tool for central configuration management enables a customer-specific configuration of a wide range of functionalities, such as dimensioning, annotation, workshop drawing creation, insertion of vertical ladders etc. Once you have adapted these configurations to your company-specific requirements, you can directly use them in the corresponding HiCAD applications without having to specify any further settings.

Use this function to individually preset various system parameters, e.g. line types, colour combinations, directories, various basic settings for 2-D/3-D modelling, sheet metal processing, steel engineering, and much more.

These functions enable you to

When you start HiCAD for the first time, the Start Centre that was designed to facilitate your first steps in HiCAD will be displayed. You are enabled to preset options for the starting of HiCAD as well as for the creation and loading of drawings. If you do not want to use the Start centre, activate the Switch Start Centre display off option.

Use this function to activate/deactivate an additional space mouse for the processing of 3-D models.

Use this function to select your preferred representation of the HiCAD user interface.

This function enables you to hide and redisplay the tabs of the multifunctional toolbar (Ribbon).

The new plug-in mechanism on API basis enables a creation of interfaces with other systems to HiCAD. If such plug-ins are implemented in your system, they are displayed in the new Plug-in Navigator. Examples of this are the templates for the new Metal Engineering planning grids.

Slect this function to start the UserInterfaceEditor.exe tool, which allows you to customize the QuickAccess Toolbar, and derive your own Ribbon tabs from the already existing, predefined Ribbon tabs.

Opens the Customise dialogue window. You can use the tabs of this window to define your own toolbars

Use this function to hide or show the various components pf the user interface (except for the Ribbon). This function can be applied to the ICN windows, the docking windows Drawing and Visual effects, the Plugin Navigator, the Info bars and the Surface/Line/Edge parameters.

User Interface • Multifunctional Toolbar (Ribbon)

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Date: 30/10/2018

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