Customize Toolbars
Topic |
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SampleTopic |
Level |
Beginner |
Time to complete |
5 minutes |
Authors |
Mario52 |
FreeCAD version |
All |
Example files |
None |
See also |
None |
Synopsis
This tutorial shows you the customization of toolbars. Tools (inclusive Macro-tools) can used in different workbenches. In an example a Macro becomes a Macro-tool by creation of a Menu text, a Tool tip and an Icon. Afterwards this Macro-tool becomes part of an extra toolbar in a workbench.
Use
1. Find the Customize Menu
- Click Main Menu → Tools → Customize,
![Customize](/images/thumb/f/f7/CustomizeToolBar_01.png/640px-CustomizeToolBar_01.png)
- or right click on any toolbar.
![Right mouse click](/images/thumb/5/50/CustomizeToolBar_02.png/640px-CustomizeToolBar_02.png)
- The Customize window appears.
![The Customize window appears](/images/c/c8/CustomizeToolBar_03.png)
2. Make a Macro to a Macro-Tool
- Select the "Macro" tab.
- To add an icon for the provided macro click the Pixmap button (labelled ... ).
![Select a toolbar](/images/6/65/CustomizeToolBar_04.png)
- Search for an appropriate icon from amongst FreeCAD's existing icons,
[or add your own icon by clicking Add icons...]. (expand for an example)
- Select your icon and click OK.
![Select your icon](/images/7/7b/CustomizeToolBar_07.png)
- The icon you selected is now displayed next to the Pixmap button labelled ....
![Your icon is displayed](/images/6/6f/CustomizeToolBar_08.png)
- Select the provided macro in line Macro:' and specify a Menu text: (which will appear as the text label in the menu); also fill in the Tool Tip': (which is the text that will appear when a mouse is over the button on the toolbar); further lines are optional.
- Click the button Add.
![Click the button](/images/d/d2/CustomizeToolBar_09.png)
- The button of the macro-tool is now created.
![Your button is created](/images/3/30/CustomizeToolBar_10.png)
3. Create a toolbar outside the workbench Macro which contains the created Macro-tool
- Select the Toolbars tab and choose the workbench (for which the toolbar is provided) in the drop down on the right (Part in this example).
[Since version 0.15 there is a Global toolbar. If this is selected, the provided toolbar will be in each workbench.]
![Toolbars tab](/images/3/32/CustomizeToolBar_11.png)
- In the dropdown on the left select Macros.
![Macros](/images/6/69/CustomizeToolBar_12.png)
- The macro-tool with its icon appears in the list.
![Your icon is listed](/images/b/b8/CustomizeToolBar_13.png)
- Click the button New...
![Click on "New"](/images/6/64/CustomizeToolBar_14.png)
- In the window "New Toolbar" enter the name of the provided extra toolbar for the Part Workbench and click OK
![Enter the name for your toolbar](/images/6/6c/CustomizeToolBar_15.png)
- The toolbar is now created.
- To add the creadet macro-tool to this toolbar, select it in the left window and then click the Button with the arrow pointing right.
![Select your macro](/images/7/78/CustomizeToolBar_16.png)
- You have created now a toolbar called "Camera" (with the Macro-tool Camera in it)
- Click the Close button.
![Close](/images/4/41/CustomizeToolBar_17.png)
- Your new toolbar is now contained in the toolbars' right-click menu. Its Icons (in our example only the camera) are visible, if the toolbar is activated (blue checkmark).
![New Toolbar](/images/thumb/a/af/CustomizeToolBar_18.png/640px-CustomizeToolBar_18.png)