Structure of menus in BabaCAD

 

Basic manu looks like the following:

Menus on the basic menu are shown below along with the descriptions of their commands:

 

FILE menu

New – Creates new project (NEW FILE)

Open – Opens an existing project (OPEN FILE)

Save – Saves your project in a file (SAVE FILE)

Save As – Saves your project in a file under another name (SAVE FILE)

Plot – Plots the look of your Paper space (Layout) (PLOT)

Plot Preview – Preview of how will your project look on paper before plotting  (PLOT)

Plot Setup – Setup of plotting variables (PLOT)

1,2,3,4 – Four last projects opened in BabaCAD

Exit – Exit from BabaCAD

 

 

EDIT menu

Undo – Takes back previous action

Redo – Repeats previous action

Cut – Deletes selected object from the drawing and saves it ino clipboard

Copy – Copies selected object from the drawing into clipboard (COPY_OBJECT)

Paste – Pastes object from clipboard into your project

 

 

VIEW menu

Toolbars (menu) – Showing or hiding specific toolbars in BabaCAD window

Status Bar – Showing or hiding status line in the bottom of BabaCAD window

Pan – Enables moving through the drawing (PAN)

Zoom Realtime – Enables zooming with middle mouse button (ZOOM)

Zoom Window – Zooms view on your project to size of the window you choose in BabaCAD (ZOOM)

Zoom Extents – Zooms view on your project so it shows all objects (ZOOM)

Add Viewport – Adds a Viewport to PAPER space (Layout) (Viewports)

 

INSERT menu

Block – Inserts an existing block (INSERT BLOCK)

External reference (XREF)... – Inserts an existing drawing from a file (INSERT XREF)

Raster image – Inserts an existing (raster) image from a file (INSERT IMAGE)

 

 

FORMAT menu

Layers – Opens Layer Manager for managing Layers (Layer Manager)

Dimension Style – Opens Dimension Style Manager for managing dimension styles (DimStyle Manager)

 

DRAW menu

Point – Draws a point (POINT)

Line – Draws a line (LINE)

Polyline – Draws a polyline (POLYLINE)

Rectangle – Draws a rectangle (RECTANGLE)

Circle – Draws a circle (CIRCLE)

Arc – Draws a ARC (ARC)

Hatch – Draws a hatch (HATCH)

Create a Block – Creates a new block (object group) (CREATE BLOCK)

Insert Block – Inserts an existing block (INSERT BLOCK)

Raster Image – Inserts an (raster) image from a file (INSERT IMAGE)

 

 

DIMENSION menu

Linear – Creates a linear dimension (DIMENSION)

Aligned – Creates an aligned dimension (DIMENSION)

Dimension Style - Opens Dimension Style Manager for managing dimension styles (DimStyle Manager)

 

 

TOOLS menu

Send To Back – Sets object behind other objects overlapping it

Bring To Front - Sets object in front ot other objects overlapping it

Black Bakground – If this option is turned on background is black, otherwise background is white

 

 

MODIFY menu

Move – Moves selected object on drawing(MOVE)

Offset – Moves selected object for specific Offset (OFFSET)

Trim – Trims the selected point of the object (TRIM)

Extend – Extends point of the object to another location (EXTEND)

 

 

Help menu

About BabaCAD – Basic information about BabaCAD

Online Help – Web site www.babacad.com