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User interface

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UI customization

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Live toolbar
Sketching
Selection

Orienting the model

Keyboard shortcuts

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User interface
Quick Access
Toolbar

Help Center

Ribbon Tabs
Graphics
Toolbar

Graphics
Window

Object Tree

Navigator
Open/Close

2D/3D mode
Selection Filters
Browser
Open/Close

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Prompt Area

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UI customization
Common dashboard controls
Right-click on a command to add to Quick Access Toolbar or access ribbon customization dialog

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Right-click to choose commands to be

visible in the Graphics Toolbar

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Live toolbar
A context sensitive toolbar is automatically displayed next to the cursor upon selection of geometry.
This contains the most commonly used commands and their controls.

To activate the Live Toolbar the

Select (with Default) option
needs to be set

Face selection

Pattern options

Command Toolbar
Options Toolbar

Sketch or sketch region selection

3D Dragger positioning

Edge selection

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Sketching
When creating 2D geometry guides help to define the desired shape.
Precision Panels

Hotkeys

Delta X, Y

Locks/Unlocks current guide

Hides current guide

When no guides are active, restores all hidden guides

Hides/Unhides Precision Panel

Switches between Line and Arc when active

Alt

To project geometry

Absolute X, Y

Distance, angle

SHIFT Stops snapping

Radius

break same point constraint after selecting entity

MMB Completes tool

Diameter
Width Height

Radius (a), angle

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Selection
Shape-based selection

Region selection

Filters

TAB to cycle through shapes

Drag left to right everything inside

box

Filters limit the scope of selection

Boss, cut, round with or without secondary

Tab

Drag right to left everything the box

touches

Tab

Active Filter

Pre-highlight
Face

Boss with
Secondary

Boss

Geometry rule selection

Change Select to no default (default required for
Live toolbar interaction) Geometry Rules available after
surface is selected

Mouse controls
Highlight geometry

Over geometry

Query to next item

Until highlighted

Select highlighted geometry

Add or remove items

from selection

Clear selection

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Ctrl

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Orienting the model

Dynamic viewing

Using the Spin Center

3D Mode

Click the icon in the Main Toolbar to enable

the Spin Center:

Hold down the key and button. Drag the mouse.

Spin

Pan

Shift

Zoom

Ctrl

Turn

Ctrl

E nabled The model spins about

the location of the spin center
D isabled The model spins about
the location of the mouse pointer

Hold down the key and roll the mouse wheel.

Zoom

Fine Zoom

Shift

Coarse Zoom

Ctrl

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Keyboard shortcuts
Key tips

Keyboard shortcuts
You can use standard keyboard shortcuts in
Creo Direct. For example:

Press ALT key to activate key tips

New file

Ctrl

Open file

Ctrl

Save file

Ctrl

Delete

Del

Copy

Ctrl

Paste

Ctrl

Undo

Ctrl

Redo

Ctrl

Repaint

Ctrl

Standard view

Ctrl

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