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UPDATED FOR V17 INSIDE BRICSCAD® A Quick Tour Through BricsCAD Navigating the BricsCAD Interface Setting Up A New Drawing Creating Your First Drawing Adding Details to Drawings Making Changes to Drawings Adding Notes and Dimensions Bills of Material Modeling 2D Regions and Booleans Direct 3D Modeling & Editing Dimensional & Geometric Constraints Payment Information This book is covered by copyright. As the owner of the copyright, upFront.eZine Publishing, Ltd. gives you permission to make one print copy. You may not make any electronic copies, and you may not claim authorship or ownership of the text or figures herein. 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Table of Contents 1 — A Quick Tour Through BricsCAD ...................................1 How to Start BricsCAD V17 ...................................................................3 Starting BricsCAD on Windows ......................................................................................................... 3 Windows Vista and 7 ........................................................................................................................................ 3 Windows 8 ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 Windows 10......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Starting BricsCAD on Linux ................................................................................................................ 5 Starting BricsCAD on Mac MacOS .................................................................................................... 5 BricsCAD V17 User Interface ............................................................................................................ 6 Getting Started .....................................................................................8 The BricsCAD Window......................................................................................................................... 8 A Basic Tour of the User Interface ................................................................................................... 9 Crosshair and Arrow Cursors ......................................................................................................................... 9 Command Bar ......................................................................................................................................10 All About Command Prompts......................................................................................................................11 Undoing What You’ve Done: U ....................................................................................................................13 Seeing What You Did Before: Command History ...................................................................................14 Typing Less: Aliases and AutoComplete ....................................................................................................15 UCS Icon ................................................................................................................................................17 Online Help ..........................................................................................................................................18 Exiting BricsCAD .................................................................................18 What’s New in BricsCAD V17 ...............................................................19 What’s New in Generated Views ....................................................................................................35 What’s New in Rendering .................................................................................................................36 SUPPORTED GRAPHICS BOARDS ............................................................................................. 44 2 — Navigating the BricsCAD Interface ............................ 45 Above the Drawing Area .....................................................................46 Title Bar .................................................................................................................................................47 Menu Bar ...............................................................................................................................................48 Toolbars .................................................................................................................................................49 Toolbar Buttons and Macros ........................................................................................................................50 The Standard Toolbar .....................................................................................................................................51 Flyouts ................................................................................................................................................................51 Droplists .............................................................................................................................................................52 Changing Properties ............................................................................53 Other Panels .....................................................................................................................................................56 USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS OF PANELS ................................................................................. 57 Ribbon Tabs and Panels ....................................................................................................................59 Drawing Tabs ........................................................................................................................................59 In the Drawing Area ............................................................................60 Shortcut Menus ...................................................................................................................................61 quad cursor .........................................................................................................................................61 Quick Properties .............................................................................................................................................62 Scroll Bars .............................................................................................................................................63 Prompt Menu .......................................................................................................................................63 Look-From Control .............................................................................................................................63 The UCS Icon in 2D Drafting, 3D Modeling, and DUCS ...........................................................65 Tips Widget ...........................................................................................................................................67 Below the Drawing Area .....................................................................69 Layout Tabs 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