Contents


User Interface
1. Overview of QY CAD
2. Set your product area in Support Center
3. Find QY CAD content in Support Center
4. Open help directly from QY CAD
5. Learn QY CAD
5. Learn QY CAD in 6 simple steps
5. Browse by QY CAD functionality
5. Mechanical & Electrical Design
5. Manufacturing & Publications
5. Simulation
5. Document Management
5. Cloud Ready
5. Document management videos
5. Tutorial collection
5. Activity collection
6. Adaptive UI
7. Quick Reference Card
8. Display version and license information
9. Enable command tips
10. Send command logs
11. Programming with QY CAD command
12. QY CAD environments
12. QY CAD environments
12. The Part environment
12. The Sheet Metal environment
12. Synchronous and ordered environments
12. The Assembly environment
12. The Draft environment
13. Interface basics
13. Learning tools for QY CAD
13. Application menu overview
13. Changing the QY CAD start page
13. Set a custom QY CAD start page
13. QY CAD themes
13. QY CAD user interface
13. Cursors overview
13. Using the mouse
13. Graphic handle (3D steering wheel)
13. Quick Access toolbar
13. Turn helpers on and off
13. Zoom slider overview
13. Managing tool panes
13. Panes command
13. Managing docking windows
13. Using docking stickers
13. Docking window tab sets
13. Manipulate multiple- and single-page windows
13. Reposition a window using docking stickers
13. Reopen a closed docking window
13. Activity: Using docking windows
13. Command bar overview
13. Command bar overview
13. Using the command bar
13. PromptBar
13. PromptBar
13. Manipulate PromptBar
13. Radial menus
13. Radial menus
13. Customize the radial menu
13. Restore the radial menu to default settings
13. Finding commands in QY CAD
13. Finding commands in QY CAD
13. Command Finder command
13. Command Finder dialog box
13. Find a command with Command Finder
13. QY CAD Spotlight
13. QY CAD Spotlight
13. Turn QY CAD Spotlight off or on
14. Element and object selection
14. Element and object selection
14. Find Components command
14. Select or deselect an element
14. Selecting with a fence or box
14. Handles overview
14. Delete an element
14. Delete command
14. Delete a feature or reference element
14. SmartSelect
14. Selecting with SmartSelect
14. Select similar elements with SmartSelect
14. SmartSelect command
14. SmartSelect Options dialog box
14. QuickPick
14. Select overlapping elements with QuickPick
14. QuickPick Options dialog box
14. Selection Manager Mode
14. Using Selection Manager Mode
14. Select elements using Selection Manager Mode
14. Selection Manager menu
14. Selecting and snapping to keypoints
14. Selecting and snapping to keypoints
14. Snap to a keypoint
14. Select command
14. Modify a 2D element with the Select tool
14. Move a 2D element with the Select tool
14. Select using a polygon fence
14. Copy an element with the Select tool
14. Select command
14. Select tool options
14. Part and Sheet Metal Selection command bar
14. Draft, Profile, and Sketch Selection command bar
14. Select Options dialog box
14. Select All command
14. Select all documents in the document tree
15. Sharing QY CAD documents
15. Share documents from a folder location or .zip file
15. (Send To) Mail Recipient (As Attachment) command
16. Document and window operations
16. Creating documents and using templates
16. Creating documents and using templates
16. Define user template paths
16. Using Quicksheet templates
16. Using AutoCAD colors and templates
16. Create a document
16. Create a template
16. Create documents with unique properties
16. Save a base feature as a template
16. New command
16. New dialog box
16. Add Template dialog box
16. Default Templates dialog box
16. Template List Creation dialog box
16. New List dialog box
16. Opening and saving QY CAD documents
16. Opening and saving QY CAD documents
16. Open a QY CAD document
16. Open a Teamcenter-managed document
16. Pin and unpin documents to the Recent Files list
16. Create a preview image of a document
16. Save a document
16. Set a reminder to save documents
16. Save a copy of a document with a new name or format (SEEC)
16. Save a simplified part to a separate file
16. Save a document to a non-QY CAD file type
16. Save a document to Adobe PDF
16. Save a document as 3D Adobe PDF
16. Save a part in an assembly to a new document
16. Open command
16. Open File dialog box
16. Open File dialog box (SEEC)
16. Recent Documents command
16. Special Query File Root Directory Dialog Box
16. List Display command
16. Part File dialog box
16. Assembly File dialog box
16. Select By Type Dialog Box
16. Browse dialog box
16. Browse for File dialog box
16. Opening and saving draft documents
16. Opening and saving draft documents
16. Open a draft document for viewing and printing only
16. Open Draft documents (SEEC)
16. Open Draft command
16. Save All command
16. Save As command
16. Save as unmanaged command
16. Save As dialog box
16. BOM dialog box
16. Save Model As command
16. Save Copy As command
16. Publish command
16. Start the Web Publishing Wizard
16. Save an image
16. Save an image
16. Save As Image command
16. Save As Image dialog box
16. Image Options dialog box
16. Save Selected Model command
16. Save Selected Model dialog box
16. Save command
16. Working with document windows
16. QY CAD windows
16. Using the tabbed document interface
16. Floating graphic windows for multiple monitors
16. Arranging your work space
16. Arrange open documents
16. Collapse all windows
16. Restore all windows
16. Switch to another open document
16. Close open documents
16. Close an environment or application and return to a previous environment or application
16. New Window command
16. Restore All command
16. Collapse All command
16. Switch Windows command
16. Arrange command
16. Arrange Windows dialog box
16. Close command
16. Close All command
16. Close (environment) command
16. Exit QY CAD command
16. Document properties
16. Viewing file properties
16. Set document properties
16. Edit document properties
16. Properties command
16. General group, Document Properties dialog box
16. Summary group, File Properties dialog box
16. Custom group, File Properties dialog box
16. (Document) Properties dialog box
16. Searching for documents
16. Searching for documents
16. Process Options dialog box
16. Find a QY CAD file
16. Quickly search for an Item ID
16. Find documents linked to the current document
16. Search for empty items
16. Search dialog box
16. Advanced Search dialog box (SEEC)
16. Search command
16. Search Results dialog box
16. Display all revisions of an Item
16. Use the Revision Filter
16. Where Used dialog box
16. Where Used command
16. Where Used Results dialog box
16. Using Search Criteria
16. Search Criteria List
16. Working with file types
16. Create a new folder in the library
16. Display file types in the Library
16. File Types dialog box
16. Undo and redo
16. Undo or redo actions
16. Close a part without saving changes
16. Undo All Command
16. Undo List Command
16. Undo command
16. Redo Command
16. Redo List command
16. Working with read-only documents
16. Working with read-only documents
16. Read-Only Assistant
16. Read Only dialog box (Direct Document)
16. Read Only dialog box (In-Context)
16. Save Read-Only Document dialog box
17. Manipulating 2D and 3D views
17. Basic viewing operations
17. Change the model display style
17. Adjusting the zoom level
17. Zoom in or zoom out
17. Zoom using the Zoom slider
17. Zoom in on an area
17. Zoom to a selected part in an assembly
17. Change a view dynamically with the Zoom Tool
17. Fit all elements in the active view
17. Pan a view
17. Zoom slider
17. Zoom command
17. Zoom To command
17. Orienting a view
17. Change model view direction
17. Changing model view direction using shortcut keys
17. Add perspective to a window
17. Quick View Cube control
17. Quick View Cube Settings dialog box
17. Look at Face command
17. Perspective command
17. Rotating a view
17. Rotate by selecting a standard view
17. Rotate about a face or its normal
17. Rotate the view of a part or assembly
17. Rotate to align a view with a face
17. Rotate (3D Views) command
17. Spin About command
17. Model view transitions
17. Previous View command
17. Refresh View command
17. Managing named views
17. View Orientation command
17. Save a new named view
17. Edit a saved view
17. Delete a saved view
17. Recall a saved view
17. Using view clipping planes
17. Controlling the display depth in a 3D window
17. Set the clipping planes for a view
17. Toggle the clipping planes for a view
17. Set Planes command
17. Clipping On command
17. Set Planes command bar
18. Choosing a help system
18. Choosing a help system
18. Change to web help
18. Change to local help
18. Using a local help server
18. Working with localized QY CAD help
19. QY CAD Product Improvement Program
19. QY CAD Product Improvement Program
19. Opt in or out of the QY CAD Product Improvement Program
19. Give feedback on QY CAD
20. QY CAD Technical Support
20. QY CAD Technical Support
20. SEEC diagnostics