TUTORIAL X-STEEL - Screen components

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This section briefly describes several important screen components.

Menu bar

The menu bar located under the blue title bar has pull-down menus containing all the Xsteel commands. To select a command, click a menu title and then select the command.

Toolbars

The toolbars are located under the menu bar. They contain icons which give easy access to the most frequently-used commands. When you move the mouse pointer over an icon, a tooltip displays the name of the icon. To execute a command, click the appropriate icon. Use the icon as an alternative to selecting commands from a pull-down menu.

Dialog boxes

Tekla Structures displays a dialog box if you select a command whose name has three dots after it, e.g. Select.... You can also double-click an object or icon. F



To display the current properties of an object type, double-click the corresponding icon. Xsteel displays a properties dialog box, and you can change the properties before applying the command.

To display the properties dialog box of an individual object, double-click the object.



Switches

Select switches and Snap settings are special toolbars containing switches which control the selection of objects, and snapping to points.

Use select switches to define which object types can be selected. With them you can limit selection. For example, if only the Select welds switch is active, Xsteel only selects welds, even if you select the entire model area.


The two circled pairs of switches control whether you can select:

  • Components or objects created by components, or
  • Assemblies or objects in assemblies.

You need to activate snap switches to pick different positions and points, e.g. line ends and intersections.

The two circled switches define whether you can pick reference points or any other points on objects, e.g. part corners. Either or both of these switches must be active for the other switches to work.

Status bar

Xsteel displays prompts and messages on the status bar located at the bottom of the Xsteel window.

The status bar also displays the following information:

  • The status of Xsnap (T), SmartSelect (S), and Drag and drop (D)
  • The level in assembly or component hierarchy (0-9)
  • The middle mouse button mode (Pan or Scroll)
  • The current phase
  • The number of the selected objects

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