Menus, keys and mouse — DetailCraft help

DetailCraft's commands are the same whichever way you reach them. A menu style only decides where they sit on screen, what they are called there and which keys run them. Choose one in Settings (⌘,Ctrl+,) › DetailCraft › Menus, keys and mouse; the change is immediate, and this browser remembers it.

The three styles

Style	What you get
DetailCraft	DetailCraft's own toolbar (File, Place, Connect, Edit, Output) and its single-letter keys: `VV` select, `BB` beam, `CC` column, `RR` brace, `PP` plate, `FF` footing, `SS` stair. The start.
Drafting classic	For people who type commands: a small ribbon (Home, View, Output) and a command line. Type BEAM, COLUMN, BRACE, PLATE, FOOTING, STAIR, ENDPLATE, BASEPLATE, SHEARTAB, SPLICE, GUSSET, U (undo), ZOOM, PLAN, 3D, DRAWINGS, NC or HELP and press `ReturnEnter`; `ReturnEnter` on nothing repeats the last command, `EscEsc` clears it. Start typing anywhere and the letters go to the command line. The middle button pans; in 3D, `⇧Shift` and the middle button orbit.
Steel ribbon	Tabs the way steel detailing programs arrange them: Modeling (members, concrete, stairs), Detailing (connections), Edit, Drawings (drawings and reports), Fabrication (NC files, IFC) and View, with a File menu and quick buttons on the right. The single-letter keys stay. The middle button pans; in 3D the left button orbits.

Every style keeps ⌘ZCtrl+Z, ⌘YCtrl+Y, ⌘SCtrl+S, ⌘OCtrl+O, ⌘CCtrl+C, ⌘XCtrl+X, ⌘VCtrl+V, ⇧⌘VCtrl+Shift+V, ⌘DCtrl+D and ⌘ACtrl+A. The ribbons also hold the view bar's 3D, Plan, Elevation and Fit.

Make it your own

Pick the style closest to what you want, then click Customize….
On Keys and menus, find a command (the search box helps). Add a key and press the key, or two keys in a row for a two-letter key. Click a key to take it off.
With a ribbon, Where it sits moves the command to another tab and panel, to the File menu, or to Keys only.
On Mouse, set the wheel, the buttons that pan the plan and elevations, and what each button does in the 3D view.
Give it a name and click Save.

Saving a built-in style makes your own copy ("My Steel ribbon"); the built-in one never changes. A key given to two commands is shown in red and has to be fixed before you can save.

Mouse

Mouse wheel: Scroll up zooms in (the start) or Scroll up zooms out, and how fast. A trackpad pinch always zooms the way your fingers move.
Pan the plan and elevations with: the middle button, the right button, or both. With the Select tool the left button always draws a selection window.
Drag in the 3D view: Each view's own keeps DetailCraft's buttons (left orbits, middle zooms, right pans). Or set each button to orbit, pan, zoom or nothing; ⇧Shift with a button that orbits or pans swaps the two.

Take it with you

Export saves the style in use as a small .ccinput.json file; Import… adds one, from another computer or a colleague. An imported file can only point at DetailCraft's own commands: anything else in it is left out and counted in the status line. Delete this style removes one of your own.