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# A tour of the window
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- **Title bar.** On Windows and Linux the application bar is the window's title bar: File, save,
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undo and redo, the start page, the theme, Help, and one tab per open design (each with its own
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undo history, selection and camera).
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- **Toolbar.** The workspace switcher (DESIGN) sits on the left. The tabs (SOLID, SURFACE,
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SHEET METAL, PLASTIC, UTILITIES, and SKETCH while you sketch) hold panels of commands. Click a
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panel's name for all its commands.
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- **Browser** (left). The design as a tree: document settings and units, named views, the
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origin, bodies, sketches, construction planes, canvases, joints and components. The eye shows or
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hides an item, a component's radio button makes it the active component, and right-clicking any
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row gives that item's menu. Rows drag into groups and other components.
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- **Viewport.** Click to select, Shift or Ctrl to add, drag for a window or crossing box. The
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wheel zooms at the cursor, the middle button pans and right-drag orbits freely (the mouse
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preset in Preferences switches to SolidWorks or Inventor style). Hold Shift during an orbit
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to snap to the nearest standard or diagonal view; the default Shift+middle gesture also snaps.
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The axis view shows the world's X/Y/Z directions in SolidCraft's colors. Click a signed
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axis tip to look along that axis; click the aligned tip again to look from the opposite side.
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Drag the axis view to orbit around the view centre, with Shift for snapping. Top and bottom
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keep the nearest quarter-turn heading. The house and navigation bar's Home button go home.
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Right-click for the marking menu: eight commands around the cursor, plus a
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menu for whatever is under it.
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Shaded views omit certified smooth joins between spline spans on extruded
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walls. Real creases, cap outlines and authored face splits remain visible.
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Wireframe retains its edge presentation, and hiding a join does not remove its CAD
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identity or change the exported solid. Unsupported or uncertain wall geometry
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keeps its existing edge presentation.
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- **Dialogs** dock on the right with a live preview. Most features also show drag handles and a
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value box in the viewport.
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- **Timeline** (bottom). Every feature in order. Double-click to edit, drag the marker to roll
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back, and drag features to reorder them.
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- **S box.** Press S anywhere for a command search at the cursor. Pin the commands you use most
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to its top.
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Preferences (File › Preferences) hold the theme, the units of new designs, the mouse preset, the
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visual style and autosave. Help › Keyboard Shortcuts lists every key, and File › Keyboard
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Shortcuts changes them.
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Shift-orbit snapping includes 45-degree edge views and isometric corner views, with a
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lightly damped spring transition and a small boundary margin to prevent flicker.
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