The Assistant Palette has been specifically designed to give you information and guide you through your first projects with Amapi 3D. It will help you get acquainted with your software quickly. Once you are familiar with it, you can turn off the Assistant Palette, which will give you a larger work space. (See chapter User Manual/Edit/Preferences/Interface/Assistant Palette.)
The Assistant Palette is displayed at the top of the screen. It is divided into different parts.
1. The Online help provides information and guides you through any modeling step.
2. The command button icons allow you to quit an action at any time, validate it, undo it, or redo it.
3. The Selection tools are used to select groups of objects, points, and groups of points or facets.
4. The Reference Point tool allows you to set the reference point, for example, the center of rotation.
5. This set of three buttons allows you to specify constraints on the movement and position of the cursor.
6. A “+/-” Tuner allows you to control at any time the precision of an action, number of points, axes step size, definition of values, etc. or the range of action of a tool.
7. Finally, this area displays the different modes available for the current tool.
See chapter User Manual/Tools/Assistant Palette for more details.
Please note that you can access most of those features using keyboard shortcuts (single key or key combinations) that you will learn very quickly. Then you won’t need the Assistant Palette and can have a larger work space. (See chapter User Manual/Preferences/Interface/Assistant Palette.)