Std View Menu

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Std Edit Menu

Std Tools Menu

Index

Std Base icon

Introduction

The View menu is one of the 7 sub-menus in the standard menu:

File     Edit     View     Tools     Macro     Windows     Help

Tools

The following tools are available in this menu:

• Create new view

• Orthographic view

• Perspective view

• Fullscreen

• Standard views
  • Fit all
  • Fit selection
  • Axonometric
    • Isometric
    • Dimetric
    • Trimetric
  • Front
  • Top
  • Right
  • Rear
  • Bottom
  • Left
  • Rotate Left
  • Rotate Right

• Freeze display
  • Save views...
  • Load views...
  • Freeze view
  • Clear views

• Draw style
  • As is
  • Points
  • Wireframe
  • Hidden line
  • No shading
  • Shaded
  • Flat lines

• Bounding box introduced in version 0.19

• Stereo
  • Stereo red/cyan
  • Stereo quad buffer
  • Stereo interleaved Rows
  • Stereo interleaved Columns
  • Stereo Off
  • Issue camera position

• Zoom
  • Zoom In
  • Zoom Out
  • Box zoom

• Document window
  • Docked
  • Undocked
  • Fullscreen

• Toggle axis cross

• Clipping plane

• Texture mapping...

• Visibility
  • Toggle visibility
  • Show selection
  • Hide selection
  • Select visible objects
  • Toggle all objects
  • Show all objects
  • Hide all objects
  • Toggle selectability
  • Toggle measurement
  • Clear measurement

• Toggle visibility

• Toggle navigation/edit mode

• Appearance...

• Random color

• Workbench Select a workbench from the submenu.

• Toolbars Each toolbars can be switched on or off in the submenu. Some workbenches add their own toolbars.
  • File
  • Workbench
  • Macro
  • View
  • Structure

• Panels Each panels can be switched on or off in the submenu.
  • Report view
  • Tree view
  • Property view
  • Selection view
  • Combo view
  • Python console
  • DAG view

• Tree view actions
  • Sync view introduced in version 0.19
  • Sync selection introduced in version 0.19
  • Sync placement introduced in version 0.19
  • Pre-selection introduced in version 0.19
  • Record selection introduced in version 0.19
  • Single document
  • Multi document
  • Collapse/expand
  • Initiate dragging introduced in version 0.19
  • Go to selection introduced in version 0.19

• Status bar The Status bar can be switched on or off.

Std Edit Menu

Std Tools Menu

Index

Std Base

• File: New, Open, Close, Close All, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save All, Revert, Import, Export,Merge project, Project information, Print, Print preview, Export PDF, Recent files, Exit

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• Edit: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate selection, Refresh, Box selection, Box element selection, Select All, Delete, Send to Python Console, Placement, Transform, Alignment, Toggle Edit mode, Edit mode, Preferences

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• View:
  • Miscellaneous: Create new view, Orthographic view, Perspective view, Fullscreen, Bounding box, Toggle axis cross, Clipping plane, Texture mapping, Toggle navigation/Edit mode, Appearance, Random color, Workbench, Status bar
  • Standard views: Fit all, Fit selection, Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric, Home, Front, Top, Right, Rear, Bottom, Left, Rotate Left, Rotate Right
  • Freeze display: Save views, Load views, Freeze view, Clear views
  • Draw style: As is, Points, Wireframe, Hidden line, No shading, Shaded, Flat lines
  • Stereo: Stereo red/cyan, Stereo quad buffer, Stereo Interleaved Rows, Stereo Interleaved Columns, Stereo Off, Issue camera position
  • Zoom: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Box zoom
  • Document window: Docked, Undocked, Fullscreen
  • Visibility: Toggle visibility, Show selection, Hide selection, Select visible objects, Toggle all objects, Show all objects, Hide all objects, Toggle selectability, Toggle measurement, Clear measurement
  • Toolbars: File, Edit, Clipboard, Workbench, Macro, View, Structure, Help
  • Panels: Tree view, Property view, Selection view, Tasks, Python console, DAG view, Model, Report view
  • Link navigation: Go to linked object, Go to the deepest linked object, Select all links
  • Tree view actions: Sync view, Sync selection, Sync placement, Pre-selection, Record selection, Single document, Multi document, Collapse/Expand, Initiate dragging, Go to selection, Selection Back, Selection Forward

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• Tools: Edit parameters, Save image, Load image, Scene inspector, Dependency graph, Project utility, Measure distance, Add text document, View turntable, Units calculator, Customize, Addon manager

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• Macro: Macro recording, Macros, Recent macros, Execute macro, Attach to remote debugger, Debug macro, Stop debugging, Step over, Step into, Toggle breakpoint

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• Windows: Next, Previous, Tile, Cascade, Windows

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• Help: Help, FreeCAD Website, Donate, Users documentation, Python scripting documentation, Automatic Python modules documentation, FreeCAD Forum, FreeCAD FAQ, Report a bug, About FreeCAD, What's This

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• Structure and Link: Std Part, Std Group, Make link, Make sub-link, Replace with link, Unlink, Import links, Import all links

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base, Arch, Assembly, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub