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This page quickly makes you familiar with the basic functionalities
available within the Sketcher workbench. Before starting sketching, this
task shows you how to:
Restoring the Toolbars' Positions
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Select Tools > Customize... from the menu bar.
The Customize dialog box is displayed.
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Click Restore position in the Toolbars
tab.
A dialog box is displayed asking you to confirm the Restore operation.
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Click OK to validate.
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Click Close.
All the Sketcher toolbars are now displayed at their original positions.
Using the Sketcher toolbars
The Sketcher toolbars let you:



- perform operations on both 2D and 3D geometry. For this, use the
Tools toolbar commands.

Using the mouse buttons in order to...
Select menus/commands/elements from the geometry area.
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Click the left mouse button.
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Select the desired element, for instance select a line
from a rectangle.
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Multi-select elements from the geometry area
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Click the left mouse button.
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Select a first element.
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Keep pressing the Ctrl key.
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Select one after the other the wanted elements.
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Press the left mouse button.
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Drag the cursor over the elements to be selected.
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Release the left mouse button.
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Drag elements in the geometry area
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Select an element from the geometry area.
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Keep pressing the left mouse button.
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Drag the mouse to move the selected element.
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Press the left mouse button.
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Drag the cursor over the elements to be selected.
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Move one of the rectangle line.
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Drag the whole geometry area
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Keep pressing the middle mouse button.
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Drag the cursor to move the whole geometry.
Re-center an indicated point
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Click a point in the geometry area using the middle mouse
button.
The indicated point is moved to the center of the window.
zoom in and out
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Keep pressing the middle mouse button.
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Press the right mouse button once.
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Drag the cursor up to zoom in.
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Drag the cursor down to zoom out.
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Rotate Elements in the Geometry Area
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Keep pressing the middle mouse button.
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Keep pressing the right mouse button.
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Drag the cursor to rotate the geometry.

Now that you have seen how to use the Sketcher toolbars and how to use
the mouse button, let's start creating:
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