The toolbars consists of buttons that are shortcuts to many of the menu commands. You can specify which toolbars you want to display by choosing View->Toolbars. The following table provides descriptions of the tools in the toolbar.
Button |
Description |
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Create a new drawing. |
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Open an existing drawing. |
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Save the active drawing. |
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Print the active drawing. |
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Display full pages. |
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Cut the selection and put it on the Clipboard. |
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Copy the selection and put it on the Clipboard. |
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Insert Clipboard contents. |
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Undo the last action. |
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Redo the previously undone action. |
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Display the table of contents for the online documentation. |
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Changes the font of selections. |
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Changes the font size of selections. |
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Makes the selection bold. |
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Makes the selection italic. |
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Makes the selection underline. |
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Make the selection strikeout. |
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Left jastifies selections. |
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Center jastifies selections. |
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Right jastifies selections. |
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Top jastifies selections. |
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Middle jastifies selections. |
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Bottom jastifies selections. |
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Font color. |
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Apply a style to the selected objects. |
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Assign the selected objects to layers. |
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Setup a line width. |
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Setup a line pattern. |
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Begin line ends. |
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End line ends. |
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Changes the line color of selections. |
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Changes the shape pattern of selections. |
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Changes the pattern color of selections. |
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Changes the fill color of selections. |
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Change the shadow of selected objects. |
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Zoom percentage. |
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Zoom Out |
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Zoom In |
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Zoom a drawing at actual size. |
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Zoom a drawing at whole size. |
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Zoom a drawing at poster width. |
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Zoom so that all objects are visible. |
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Zoom so that selected objects are visible. |
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Pointer tool. |
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Rotation tool. |
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Switch to Vertices Edit mode. |
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Match Properties Tool |
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Display a drawing at any zoom percentage. |
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Pan a drawing. |
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Line connector tool. |
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Dynamic connector tool. |
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Curve connector tool. |
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Snap-point tool. |
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Rectangle tool. |
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Ellipse tool. |
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Polygon tool. |
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Closed curve tool. |
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Line tool. |
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Polyline tool. |
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Curve tool. |
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Insert a text object into your drawing. |
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Insert a picture into your drawing. |
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Flip the selected object(s) about their horizontal axis. |
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Flip the selected object(s) about their vertical axis. |
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Rotate the selected object(s) 90 degrees clockwise. |
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Rotate the selected object(s) 90 degrees counterclockwise. |
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Align left edges of the selected objects with the dominant object. |
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Align vertical centers of the selected objects with the dominant object. |
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Align right edges of the selected objects with the dominant object. |
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Align top edges of the selected objects with the dominant object. |
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Align horizontal centers of the selected objects with the dominant object. |
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Align bottom edges of the selected objects with the dominant object. |
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Evenly space selected objects horizontally. |
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Evenly space selected objects vertically. |
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Resize selected objects to have the same width as the dominant object. |
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Resize selected objects to have the same height as the dominant object. |
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Resize selected objects to have the same size as the dominant object. |
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Bring selected object(s) to front of drawing order. |
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Send selected object(s) to back of drawing order. |
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Bring selected object(s) forward in drawing order. |
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Send selected object(s) backward in drawing order. |
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Nudge the selected object(s) to top. |
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Nudge the selected object(s) to bottom. |
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Nudge the selected object(s) to left. |
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Nudge the selected object(s) to right. |
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Ungroup selected group(s). |
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Group selected objects. |
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Snap object to grid. |
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Toggle the display of rulers on/off. |
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Toggle the display of grid on/off. |
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Toggle the display of page breaks on/off. |
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Toggle the display of connection points on/off. |
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Toggle the display of the Object Explorer window on/off. |
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Toggle the display of the Libraries window on/of. |
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Toggle the display of the Pan & Zoom window on/off. |
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Toggle the display of the Task window on/off |
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Show object properties. |
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Switch between normal view mode and maximized viewing area mode. |