From the course: Learning Mastercam
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Mini-toolbar
- [Instructor] So here I've switched from the home to the view tab at the top of the screen. Clicking the right mouse button brings up the mini toolbar, and this is a place where we can find a lot of frequently used commands. Up top for example, we can change the way our geometry looks here in the graphical view, but if I make changes now with nothing selected, that will only affect geometry going forwards, so let's come back and left click the circle to select it, then I'll right click, and I can for example change the pattern that makes up the edge of the circle. I could also change the stroke thickness, and I can even get in here and change the stroke color. For example, I could shift that to red or any of these other colors. At the moment, it's not apparent why this ability is so important, but later once we have a really complicated design, it might be interesting to separate different parts of say, an engine block or a complex gasket or some other 3D model with a lot of visual…
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