Getting Started Tutorials - MechDesigner > Tutorial 0: Open Dialogs & Edit Parameters

How to open an element's dialog-box

There are many different methods you can use to open an element's dialog-box.

Method 1 is very reliable. You can also use Method 1 to Delete or Rename the element.

Method 2 is the quickest.

Method 1: Selection-Window

Click element in graphic-area

STEP 1: Select the element

1. Click the element in the graphic-area or Assembly-Tree

Exceptions

1.SHIFT+CLICK a Pink Profile contour to edit an Extrusion

Each element you click (or Shift+Click) shows in the Selection-Window. There may be one or many elements.

STEP 2: Edit the element

In the Selection-Window:

2.Right-click the element you want to edit.

A contextual-menu shows. If you can edit the element:

3.Click Edit Element

The element's dialog-box is now open.

Edit Elements in the Selection-Window

Method 2: Double-Click the element

Double-click is the fastest method.

Double-click may not be successful if it is difficult to double-click ONLY the element you want to edit.

Double-click may not work when the model becomes very complex.

Double-Click element in the graphic-area.

Method 2: Double-click in the Graphic-Area

1.Double-click the element in the Graphic-Area

When the element you want to edit is near to other elements, you can

•Filter for the element-type with the Selection Filters toolbar

•Hide other elements with the Display Filters toolbar

•Move the element

The element's dialog-box is now open.

Method 2: Double-click in the Assembly-Tree

1.Double-click the element (Design-Set name) in the Assembly-Tree.

The element's dialog-box is now open.

Method 2: Double-click in the Selection-Window

1.Click the element (Design-Set FB) one time in the graphic-area to show the element in the Selection-Window.

2.Double-click the element in the Selection-Window.

The element's dialog-box is now open.

Double-Click in the Assembly-Tree

Double-Click in the Selection-Window

Method 3: Right-Click the element

You can right-click the element in the graphic-area, the Assembly-Tree and the Selection-Window.

Right-click in the graphic-area

Method 3: Right-Click in the Graphic-Area

1.Right-click the element in the graphic-area

A contextual-menu shows next to your mouse-pointer.

In the contextual-menu:

2.Click Edit Element - usually at the top of the menu.

The element's dialog-box is now open.

Method 3: Right-Click in the Assembly-Tree

1.Right-click the element in the Assembly-Tree

A contextual-menu shows.

2.Click Edit Element in the contextual-menu

The element's dialog-box is now open.

Right-Click in the Assembly-Tree.

Method 4: Edit toolbar > Edit Element command

1: Click an element in the Graphic-Area

Method 4: Edit Element -Click in the Graphic-Area, assembly-Tree, or Selection-Window.

1.Click the element one time

The element you want to edit must be:

a)In the Selection-Window,

b)At the top of the list of elements, when there is more than one element.

2.Click Edit toolbar > Edit Element

The element's dialog-box is now open.

2: Click the Edit Element icon:

Other Procedures

Edit Parts with the Part-Editor

Double-Click Part-Outline

Double-Click Y-axis of a Part-Outline

Edit Part: Select a Part-Outline

1.Click a Part-Outline

2.Click Edit-Part in Part-Editor icon

Note: the Edit Part in Part-Editor icon is in the vertical toolbar to the left of the graphic-area.

The Part-Editor is now open

Edit Part: Select a Sketch-element

1.Double-click a sketch-element that is a child to the Part

The Part-Editor is now open

Edit Part: Select a Y-axis

1.Double-click the Y-axis of the Part

The Part-Editor is now open

To edit a Profile or an Auto-Profile

Shift-Click Profile

Profile and Extrusion in Selection-Window

When the Extrusion is not in the graphic-area, you must:

Edit Part: Select a Sketch-element

1.SHIFT-CLICK the Profile in the Graphic-Area - see top image, left

The Profile and Extrusion elements are in the Selection-Window - see bottom image, left

In the Selection-Window:

2.Right-click the Extrusion element

3.Click Edit element in the contextual-menu

The Extrusion dialog-box is now open

Possible reasons you cannot edit an element

You cannot open a dialog-box to edit an element when:

•Reason: A different dialog-box is already open. Close all other dialog-boxes, if necessary.

•Reason: A command is active in the Command-Manager. Complete or cancel the active command.

•Reason: It is not possible to edit the element - e.g. : Profile, a Line in the Part-Editor.

•Reason: You must SHIFT+CLICK a Profile to see the Profile and Extrusion in the Selection-Window, Edit the Extrusion.

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Possible reasons you cannot edit an element