Menus, keys and mouse — PartCraft help

PartCraft'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+,) › PartCraft › Menus, keys and mouse; the change is immediate, and this browser remembers it.

The two styles

Style	What you get
PartCraft	PartCraft's own toolbar: the workspace switcher, File, Sketch, Features, Drawing, Assembly, Edit and View. Keys `SS` sketch, `FF` fit, `MM` measure, `XX` section view. The start.
Feature tree	A ribbon laid out the way feature-based mechanical CAD programs lay theirs: a File menu (with every export), quick buttons, and the tabs Features, Sketch, Surfaces, Evaluate, Drawing, Assembly, Studies (the workspaces and their tools) and View. Extra keys: `EE` extrude, `HH` hole, and `VV` then a letter for a view: `VV` `FF` front, `VV` `BB` back, `VV` `TT` top, `VV` `OO` bottom, `VV` `RR` right, `VV` `LL` left, `VV` `II` isometric, `VV` `NN` normal to. In the 3D view the middle button orbits, `⇧Shift` and the middle button pan, the right button pans and the left button only picks.

Style

What you get

PartCraft

PartCraft's own toolbar: the workspace switcher, File, Sketch, Features, Drawing, Assembly, Edit and View. Keys SS sketch, FF fit, MM measure, XX section view. The start.

Feature tree

A ribbon laid out the way feature-based mechanical CAD programs lay theirs: a File menu (with every export), quick buttons, and the tabs Features, Sketch, Surfaces, Evaluate, Drawing, Assembly, Studies (the workspaces and their tools) and View. Extra keys: EE extrude, HH hole, and VV then a letter for a view: VV FF front, VV BB back, VV TT top, VV OO bottom, VV RR right, VV LL left, VV II isometric, VV NN normal to. In the 3D view the middle button orbits, ⇧Shift and the middle button pan, the right button pans and the left button only picks.

Every style keeps ⌘ZCtrl+Z, ⌘YCtrl+Y, ⌘SCtrl+S, ⌘OCtrl+O, ⌘CCtrl+C, ⌘XCtrl+X, ⌘VCtrl+V, ⌘DCtrl+D and ⌘ACtrl+A.

A tool of another workspace switches to it first; a Design tool picked in another workspace goes back to Design first. Sketch tools wait for a sketch, the drawing tools for the drawing sheet, the assembly tools for an assembly: the status bar says what to do first.

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. Click a key to take it off.
With the 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 a sketch, 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 Feature tree"); the built-in one never changes. A key given to two commands, or one that would run before a two-letter key could be typed, 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 sketch with: the middle button, the right button, or both. A right click in a sketch still ends the tool's step.
Drag in the 3D view: Each view's own keeps PartCraft's setting (Settings › PartCraft: left orbits, or middle orbits). Or set each button to orbit, pan, zoom or nothing; ⇧Shift with the orbit button pans. A click without dragging still picks.

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 PartCraft's own commands: anything else in it is left out and counted in the status bar. Delete this style removes one of your own.