Application button menu

The main drop-down menu appears when you click on the system logo and contains the following items.

• Settings. Opens a window for editing system settings.

• About. Splash screen of the application will appear.
  

  

• Version. The Application version information window will appear.
  
  

• Licence manager will appear.

New project button menu

• New project – closes the current project and initiates the system state anew in the current tab.

• New project in new tab - opens a new tab and creates a new project inside it.

• Create from machine setup file – closes the current project and creates a new project from the machine setup file. Here you can choose one of the recently opened machine setup files or open the dialog to find a file on your drives.

Open project button menu

• Open project – loads an existing project from a file, a standard file selection dialog opens.

• Project library – a window that allows you to search and open sample projects from around the world.

• Open NCTuner project – loads a project created in NCTuner. If you hold the cursor on this menu item, the option to open the project in a new tab will appear.

• Import machine setup – imports data from a machine setup file into the current project.

• The following is a list of previously loaded projects. Each project in this list has its own drop-down menu with additional actions you can do with the project,

  • The first one or more items allow you to quickly load recent backup versions (snapshots) of the project.

  • Open project in new tab - opens selected project in a new window.

  • Snapshots manager - opens the window to manage all snapshots (backup versions) of the project.

  • Show file in explorer - opens Windows explorer and selects the file of this project.

Save project button menu

• Save project – saves all changes in the current project. If the project has not been saved before, a new name will be requested.

• Save As... – saves the project under a new name. The save dialog will appear.

• Save as machine setup – saves the current project template to a machine setup file.

• Export drill points... – opens a window to export drill points of a current operation (if it has Holes page in properties) to DXF-file. The file with these points can be imported later to the model page of another project.

Additional tools and buttons

Smart snap. Enable / disable snapping to objects in the graphics window.

Geometry measuring. Activates the mode of measuring objects in the graphics window.

. Turns on the mode of measuring distances between two arbitrary points on the screen.

- AI assistant button opens the AI assistant chat window.

Help button opens the help menu.

See also:

System's main window