Tools menu

Overview

With the Tools menu tools are started to draw primitives or interactively manipulate the drawing. Click on one of the commands in the figure below for an explanation of it.

Zoom tool (in)

Start a zoom tool, in continues mode. Use Left Mouse and drag to zoom in.

A stack is maintained, containing all zoom areas, zoomback and zoomout pop from the stack.

zoom

Zoomout

Zoomout to the complete drawing, zoom stack will be empty afterwards.

zoomout

Zoomback

Zoom back one level.

zoomback

Select

Start a select tool, mouse Left Down in an element selects it, or mouse Left Down + drag to select all in a box.

select

Deselect

Start a de-select tool, mouse Left Down in an element deselects it, or mouse Left Down + drag to deselect all in a box.

select

Set Insertlayer

To set the layer on which primitives will be drawn.

setlayer

Setwidth

To set the width for primitives to be drawn.

setlayer

Draw Primitives

Choose the tool to draw a primitive

setlayer

setlayer

setlayer

setlayer

Edit Primitives

Start a edit tool.

Edit element when Left Down mouse click is in a selected element.

At that moment handles on the element will enable to manipulate the element.

setlayer

Delete Primitives

Start a delete tool.

Delete element when Left Down mouse click is in a selected element.

setlayer