Transparent Toolbar
HiCAD provides a transparent toolbar for a quick and direct access to frequently used 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 show the transparent toolbar.
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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. |
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The Undo function reverses the last command. The Redo function can be used to restore the command that was previously reversed. |
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Shows all parts of the drawing, i.e. deactivated, hidden parts will be redisplayed again. |
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Hides all deactivated parts of the drawing. This function can, for instance, be helpful for the processing of parts in complex drawings. |
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Deletes the current drawing detail and redraws it subsequently. |
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Determines the smallest possible screen display containing all parts of the drawing, and displays this as large as possible. Right-click to open the Zoom, Detail menu with further Zoom functions. |
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Rectangular zoom window Use this function to define a rectangular drawing detail by specifying two points. 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 then displayed as large as possible. By positioning the rectangle correspondingly, you can also move the drawing detail. Right-click to open the Zoom, Detail menu with further Zoom functions. |
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Zoom to selection list Use this function to function to show the currently selected part list (multiple selection) as largely as possible on the screen. You can also find the function in the context menu for part lists (both in the drawing and in the ICN). Right-click to open the Zoom, Detail menu with further Zoom functions. |
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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. |
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New view Creates a new view. |
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Glass model (3-D) Displays 3-D models as glass models, i.e. all edges (including the hidden ones), are visible. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Quick Hidden Grey (3-D) Displays the edges in surface colour and the hidden edges in grey. |
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Shaded with edges (3-D) |
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Shaded without edges (3-D) |
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Rotate view Enables you to rotate views with the mouse. |
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Standard AXO Activates the Engineering axonometry 2. |
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Front view |
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Side view, from left |
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Top view |
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Active XY-plane in screen plane Rotates the view in such a way that the XY-plane is located in the screen plane. |
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Enables a part search by means of various filters. The filter settings can be saved, marked as Favourites, and re-used at any time. Example: search only for sheets of a particular material and with a thickness between 1 and 5 mm. |
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Please note:
- If you right-click the functions of the transparent toolbar, context menus with further functions are displayed.
- Some HiCAD functions are aonly available in the transparent toolbar. You can use the UserInterfaceEditor.exe tool to add these functions to your own Ribbon tabs if desired. Examples of such functions are:
- Show all parts and Show only active part
- Redraw (incl. Reshade and Recalculate active view from the sub-menu)
- Zoom functions
- 3-D processing plane (incl. sub-menu)
- Find (Part filter)
