Customizing Toolbars

 

 You can customize the appearance of some fields in the following properties toolbars: Styles, Graphic Properties, Text Properties Dimension Properties and Numerical Properties.

 
1. Right-click the toolbar field you want to customize. A contextual menu is displayed.

2. If necessary, scroll down this contextual menu to display the toolbar customization options.
 
  The customization options that you can apply to the selected field are displayed. 
 
The options available depend on the selected field. For more information on what options are available for each field, see the table below.

3. Click the option you want. Depending on the option you selected, the corresponding dialog box appears.

4. Enter the appropriate value in the dialog box.

 
  • Set text width: sets the width used to display the field in the toolbar, in number of characters to be displayed (based on 'W').
  • Set list width: sets the width used to display the drop-down list, in number of characters to be displayed (based on 'W').
  • Set list height: sets the height used to display the list, in number of lines to be displayed (up and down arrows will make it possible to scroll within the list).
  • Icons display: defines whether icons should be displayed in this field, or only in the list, when the list is collapsed.
  • Precision: sets the precision used to display a numerical value in this field, in number of digits after the separator.
  • Set number of icons per row: customize the number of icons per row for the icon box. Maximum number of 20 icons can be displayed in a row. The same number of icons can also be seen in the Properties dialog box of dimensions in the Dimension Texts tab.
5. Click OK to validate.

 
The table below indicates which fields you can customize in each toolbar, along with what you can customize for each field.
 
  Set text width Set list width Set list height Icons display Set precision No. of icons per row
Style toolbar
Style Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Text Properties toolbar
Font Name Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Font Size Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Insert Symbol No No No No No Yes
Dimension Properties toolbar
Tolerance Description Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Tolerance Yes Yes Yes No No No
Numerical Properties toolbar
Numerical Display Description Yes Yes Yes No No No
Precision Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Graphic Properties toolbar
Color Yes No No No No No
Thickness Yes No Yes No No No
Linetype Yes No Yes No No No
Point type Yes No Yes No No No