# A tour of the window

![The SolveCraft window](../generated/sample-plate.png)

- **Title bar.** On Windows and Linux the application bar is the window's title bar: File, save,
  undo and redo, the start page, the theme, Help, and one tab per open design (each with its own
  undo history, selection and camera).
- **Toolbar.** The workspace switcher (DESIGN) sits on the left. The tabs (SOLID, SURFACE,
  SHEET METAL, PLASTIC, UTILITIES, and SKETCH while you sketch) hold panels of commands. Click a
  panel's name for all its commands.
- **Browser** (left). The design as a tree: document settings and units, named views, the
  origin, bodies, sketches, construction planes, canvases, joints and components. The eye shows or
  hides an item, a component's radio button makes it the active component, and right-clicking any
  row gives that item's menu. Rows drag into groups and other components.
- **Viewport.** Click to select, Shift or Ctrl to add, drag for a window or crossing box. The
  wheel zooms at the cursor, the middle button pans and Shift+middle orbits (the mouse preset in
  Preferences switches to SolidWorks or Inventor style). The view cube and the navigation bar
  change the view. Right-click for the marking menu: eight commands around the cursor, plus a
  menu for whatever is under it.
- **Dialogs** dock on the right with a live preview. Most features also show drag handles and a
  value box in the viewport.
- **Timeline** (bottom). Every feature in order. Double-click to edit, drag the marker to roll
  back, and drag features to reorder them.
- **S box.** Press S anywhere for a command search at the cursor. Pin the commands you use most
  to its top.

Preferences (File › Preferences) hold the theme, the units of new designs, the mouse preset, the
visual style and autosave. Help › Keyboard Shortcuts lists every key, and File › Keyboard
Shortcuts changes them.