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These settings are only for CadCraft, and you can change them only here, in the app.
Which build of CadCraft this is. Give these lines when you report a problem.
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The crosshair and pick box in the drawing. A bigger pick box also picks objects from a little farther away.
Where a pasted copy hangs from the cursor (Ctrl+V) until you click: the lower-left corner of the copy's extents, or its center. Copy with a base point (COPYBASE) and that point is used instead.
With no command running. Adds: each click or window adds to what is selected, and Shift takes objects out. Replaces: a click or window selects only what it picks, and Shift adds to the selection (Shift+click a selected object to take it out).
With no command running, a click where there is no object starts a selection window. It can also clear what is selected (hold Shift to keep it), or keep the selection, as other drafting programs do: then Esc clears it.
Press and drag on an empty spot. Lasso draws a freehand outline: drag to the right to select what lies wholly inside it, to the left for what it touches, and press Space while dragging to switch between window, crossing and fence. Rectangle draws a box instead. A click, then a second click, always draws a box. Same as LASSOMODE 1 or 0.
In TRIM and EXTEND, pressing on an empty spot and dragging draws a freehand path (it trims every piece it crosses), or a window (it trims every piece it touches, as the C option does).
With objects selected, the status bar shows their total length and the total area of the closed ones. Properties always shows them for several objects.
With no command running, a grey ghost shows what your drawing's own patterns say comes next (the next stud, the next stair step, the missing wall). In the middle of LINE or PLINE it shows the next point (the next step of a stair, the fourth corner of a rectangle, the closing point). Tab takes it, Esc dismisses it. Worked out on this computer from the newest objects, by rules, with no model.
Each object you draw gets a short key that never changes, saved in the DWG or DXF. Git, Fossil or Mercurial can then merge two people's edits of one drawing object by object (cadcraft merge, docs/FILE-FORMATS.md). Costs about 10 percent in file size; turn it off if you never merge.
When what you select matches a detail in your firm's library (DETAILS), a line in the status bar says so. Matched on this computer by words, with no model.
Automatic shows the axis icon on the Model tab and the view cube on the 3D tab; the other choices apply to both. The axis icon is the X and Y marker at the bottom left of the Model tab (X, Y and Z on the 3D tab). The view cube sits at the top right: on the Model tab it shows the drawing from the top, and clicking another face, edge or corner opens the 3D tab looking from there; on the 3D tab it turns with the view. Sheets show neither.
With many sheets, show only each sheet's number on its tab (from the sheet set, or the start of its name, like A-101). Hover a tab for its whole name.
How many lines the tools use above the drawing. Wrap to fit follows the window width; 2 rows keeps two lines and scrolls sideways when they do not fit; 1 row keeps the most room for the drawing. Shift+Ctrl+F1 steps through them. What the buttons show (icons, text or both) is in General › Toolbar, and Ctrl+F1 steps through it.
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Six short steps that draw, move, trim, erase and measure something. It starts by itself only the first time.
Settings › Global › First-time tours turns this off for every app.
Which side of the window the toolbar sits on. Top is how it has always been. A ribbon menu style is made for the top or the bottom; the CadCraft toolbar and the classic style also fit the sides. Reset the layout (Settings › General) puts it back on top. On a phone the toolbar stays where the phone layout puts it.
Workspace
From add-ons and files
A layout is a .ccworkspace.json file: data only, read as untrusted. It arranges the same building blocks in every app; each app fills them with its own tools. Drop a .ccworkspace.json file here to import it.
Every app that has the workspace you pick opens in it; the others keep their toolbar and panels. Your toolbar style, menus and keys stay as they are.
Work environments. Save your whole setup under a name (the layout, menu style and keys, toolbar, panels and My tools, for every app) and switch between setups. The theme and the language stay as they are.
Lost a toolbar, a menu or a panel?
Puts the toolbar (order, lock and buttons), the panels, the screen mode and the menu style back to how CadCraft starts. Your theme, language, sizes and CadCraft's own settings stay as they are.
The theme applies to every CadCraft app and the site.
The language applies to every CadCraft app. The app reloads to change it.
Global settings: each app can have its own measurement settings and defaults too.
Switch a unit on to see it in the unit lists. The star marks the default for new drawings, measures and items. These choices are the same in every app in this browser.
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A file keeps its own unit (a drawing's units, a project's feet or meters), and that unit stays in its list even when it is turned off here.
Sharing your hardware specs allows us to build more efficient engines. The information is aggregated and not associated with your account: the graphics card, processor cores, memory and screen size, the browser and system family, and the app — no files, no name, no address.
Off: no app starts its tour by itself. Each app's own settings can still turn its tour off, or take it again.
Browsers allow full screen only after a click or key press, so it starts on your first click in the drawing.
Toolbar rows
Wrap shows every group. 2 rows and 1 row keep the drawing taller; scroll the toolbar sideways for the rest.
On a touch screen (swipe the toolbar for more, or let it wrap)
Arrange: drag tools within their group, and drag a group by its name.
Right-click the toolbar (or long-press it) for Arrange, Lock and Reset.
Fingers on the drawing, once you use a pen here
The pen's side button, its eraser end and the finger taps are set in Input devices, where they can run any command.
With Only move the view, one finger on the drawing does nothing and two fingers move and zoom it. These choices are for this device, in every app. A pen is noticed the first time you use one here.
The bars, toolbars, panels and dialogs of CadCraft, bigger or smaller; the drawing keeps its own zoom. Panel text size works on top of it.
Compact tightens the row heights, panel padding, toolbar buttons and panel text of CadCraft, so more fits on the screen. A touch screen keeps its large targets either way.
You can also drag a panel's inner edge. Double-click the edge to put it back.
Panel widths apply when the panels sit beside the drawing (wider windows).
Drag a panel by its name to dock it left, right or at the bottom, or drop it over the drawing to float it. A new window can go on your other screen. Reset layout puts every panel back where it started.
Add-ons add features to CadCraft. Switching one off takes effect at once; some need a reload to go completely.
Developer mode is on: add-ons that are not signed can load. Only use add-ons you trust.