Customize your hardware environment.
The following hardware items can be customized:
Mouse via the Keyboard option
For each of these items, the appropriate Customize dialog is displayed (Customize Keyboard is shown below). The layout and interaction of each of these dialogs is identical, with only the Categories and Commands corresponding to the selected hardware.
This dialog shows:
Category and Command for which a shortcut is to be created.
The Menu Name.
A field to enter the new shortcut.
A field to display the currently set shortcut.
Description of the Command
Close button to close the dialog, Assign button to set the shortcut, Reset button to remove the shortcut.
Notes:
Hardware items can only be customized if they are attached. If you do not have a Spaceball attached to your computer, the Spaceball option in the Customize menu will be grayed out.
All shortcut commands are stored in the file pullcommands.ini, under the folder Cimatron\CimatronE\Data. This file is updated after the current Cimatron E session is closed. This means that if you have created a keyboard shortcut, the shortcut will only be added to the file pullcommands.ini, after Cimatron E is closed. If pullcommands.ini is deleted, all shortcuts will be lost.
The shortcuts for the keyboard, mouse, magellan and spaceball will only execute if a user editable field in a dialog is not active (this is a field that allows you to enter textual or numeric data). If such a field is active, only the Symbol shortcuts are available.
Select the Category and then the Command to which the shortcut is to be added.
The Category and Command appear in the Menu Name underneath:
Enter
the required shortcut key(s).
A message under the new shortcut field informs you whether the shortcut
is assigned or not.
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Unassign shortcut |
Assigned shortcut |
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Note: The following key combinations may be used when setting shortcuts:
Any alphanumeric key together with ALT or CTRL.
Function keys F2-F12 (F1 is reserved for the online Help).
Single keys ( A-Z, 1-0 ). The Shift key can be used to differentiate between Upper and lower case for single key shortcuts, thereby doubling the number of single keys that can be used.
The symbols: `-=\][';/.*+.
Press the Assign button and the new shortcut is associated with the selected command.
Notes:
If a shortcut key already exists for the current Category and Command, the new shortcut overrides it and becomes the new Current key.
If a shortcut key already exists for another Category and Command, the new shortcut overrides it and becomes the new Current key. In this case, the existing shortcut key for the other command is unassigned.
Select the command whose shortcut is to be edited.
Enter the new shortcut and press the Assign button.
The new shortcut has now been assigned to the command.
Select the Category and then the Command for which the shortcut is to be reset.
The currently assigned key is displayed:
Press the Reset button to unassign the key.
