This command ribbon is provided when you select a shape/item (e.g. Rectangle) using the breadcrumbs bar, which is used to navigate pages, shapes and parts.

Select

Changes to the Select tool. Click on this link to Select for more details. 

Clipboard

This Group of commands allows you to Cut, Copy, Duplicate and Paste.

Label 

This command lets you place text into a job/drawing. You can select text size, font and so on, simply...

1. Right click on 'Label' to get menu.
2. To enable you to customise select Format Label Tool from the popup menu.
3. On the Label Property Sheet , enter the appropriate text and select the font style, alignment, angle, and other effects as needed.
   The label tool only has a Label tab, but when placed on the drawing, it also has a Position tab.

Text Box  

This command lets you insert text inside a rectangular box into a drawing. The text auto-wraps to fit inside the box, and if there is too much text, it is clipped to the box. To do this follow the instructions above for Label. To place a text box on a drawing, you need to specify two points which are opposing corners of the rectangle. Just select the text box tool, click on the drawing while holding the button down, then drag the mouse to form a rectangle. You can then move the text box and resize it exactly to your needs.

Picture  

This command lets you insert a picture directly into a drawing. Bitmaps are picture files with an extension of "bmp". You can create, view, and edit these in 'Paint', which comes with a standard install of Windows. Almost every other image program will let you view bitmaps as well. The Bitmap tool can be used to place one of these images on a drawing, for example, you may place your company logo on a drawing template. As well as regular bitmaps, the tool also supports DIB (device independent bitmap) and compressed RLE (run length encoded) images.

Dimension 

Dimension tools are used for measuring different parts of your shape and the following associated dimensioning commands allow you to easily insert and place dimension lines.

The dimension tool works in a 3 click process. Enable the command by clicking on the Dimension  button on the ribbon, then...

1. Your first click represents where you want the measurement to start from;
2. Second click defines where you want to measure to;
3. Final click will present a dimension line which you then drag to place.

When you drag to place, you are able to set the dimension lines in various locations, just by holding down the mouse key and dragging until in required position.

The dimension measurement displayed is dependent on direction of placement - notice that the bottom dimensions are displayed upside down. You can re-dimension or change the Angle of the Dimension Properties.

Once the first dimension is placed, you can simply keep clicking to add more dimensions. In the example, we have continued clicking (4 and 5) to measure to the end of top of the shape.

End/Start New Dimension

To end, simply click on another command (e.g. Select)

To start a new dimension, click on the Dimension  command icon and select 'Yes' to the presented message.

Direction of Measurement

The dimension measurement displayed is dependent on direction of placement. In the above example, the dimension between points A and B is upside down.

Dimensions are Associative

This means dimensions attached to objects in the drawing will resize automatically when the object is changed or moved to a different location. Turning on Snap to Grid (useful with Cutouts) or Snap To Handle will ensure that the dimensioning command tool will know which shape handle they are meant to be associated with.

Delete a Dimension

To delete a placed dimension, simply select it (it will display in light blue) and hit the keyboard Delete key.

Angular Dimension 

The Angular Dimension tool allows you to dimension...

• between sides with a common vertex - the nearest pair of adjacent sides are auto selected when you are outside snap distance.
• and sides without a common vertex - if you move the mouse closer, you can click on one side and then the other i.e. you select sides that are not adjacent using two clicks.

Then after the first one or two clicks (depending on where you click) there is a rubberband movement of the arc dimension line until you click to place.

Between Sides with Common Vertex

1. Click on the Angular Dimension  command icon.
2. Hover over the area of selection (cursor will change to a ) and the nearest pair of adjacent sides are auto selected when you are outside snap distance.
   • Selected sides (or edges) will be presented with a dark grey line as shown below.

     

   • Alternatively, you can click to select first line for angle and then click to select second line, as discussed next, useful for sides with no common vertex.
3. Then left click on page, drag presented arc to desired position and left click again to complete placement.

   

Sides with No Common Vertex

To select sides that are not adjacent, as in the example above, you use two clicks.

• Move the mouse closer to be inside the snap distance and;
• Click to select first line for angle and then click to select second line;

  

• Drag presented arc to desired position and left click again to complete placement.

  

Delete a Dimension

To delete a placed dimension, simply Select it (it will display greyed out as shown) and hit the keyboard delete key.

Movement

For full discussion, click on the link to Movement topic.

Calculator  

You can type directly in the edit box or click on the  to open the calculator application, as shown. When the equal sign is clicked, the result is displayed in the edit box e.g. 1700. The resulting number can be cut and pasted between the calculator and text boxes in ShapeMaster, so you do not need to write down results and type them back in. It a handy tool and takes up next to no space.

Pressing the  button will open the Standard Windows calculator.

If you use this command and nothing happens, it most likely means that you do not have the calculator installed.

Tape Measure

Allows you to draw a line between two points while displaying the horizontal offset, vertical offset and total distance between them.

First, select/turn on the Tape Measure and then...

1. click on the beginning (first point) of where you wish to measure from; and
2. hold down mouse button and drag to the end point (second point which can be anywhere on the page);
3. continue to hold down mouse button to read the measurement (e.g. 600)
   • as soon as you release the mouse button, the measurement line and details will disappear.

Shape Properties

Allows you to Format the current item which could be a shape or other object. (Same as selecting Format ... from the right click menu).

2D View

2D View is strictly for the placement of entities, such as annotations, text boxes, labels and dimensions and do not appear in 3D views.

3D View

Clicking on this command button will take you to the 3D Tools | Display tab.