When you hover above:

•a Command icon in a toolbar: the Extended Hint for the command shows in this box

•an Element in the graphic-area: the Element's Kinematic and Kinetostatic (Force) Properties show in this box

Drag the vertical separator bar to the right of the feedback area if you cannot see all of the Hint and/or Element's Properties.

Note:

You can enable and disable hints at your mouse-pointer.

See Edit menu > Application-Settings > Accessibility tab > Menus separator > Enable Hints and Tool-tips.

The most recent message is at the top of the list.

Please read the messages if you cannot complete a command.

To clear all messages:

1.Right-Click, with your pointer in the Message Window area

2.Click Clear Messages

We classify messages for you as:

Information; Warnings; Errors (save your work!).

Messages and Sounds:

You can hear a sound with each message.

To turn sound on, click the check-box in:

Edit menu > Application-Settings > Accessibility tab > Sounds separator

Master Machine Angle 

The MMA has a range of 0 – 360. It is one(1) Machine Cycle.

•Arrowhead - below the scale - is the approximate value of the MMA

•Digital-Readout - to the right of the scale - is the exact value of the MMA.

•Revs - to the left of the scale -  is the number of times the MMA has completed a machine-cycle.

Move the MMA to a machine angle:

Move Exactly:  

Enter a value with your keyboard in the Digital-Readout box, or use the Spin-Box tool. You can use the Spin-Box with tiny increments.

Move Approximately:

Drag, to the left or right, with your mouse-pointer inside the MMA scale.

Jog, or micro-jog, the MMA:

1.Edit the Spin-Increment in the Digital-Readout to a small step-size - e.g. 0.1, or 0.01

2.Press you mouse-button down on the Spin-Arrow to increase or decrease the MMA by the Spin-Increment.

Buttons to Scale Vectors

Vectors are in the graphic-area when you enable:

•Show Velocity(V) and Show Acceleration(A) Vectors  - see Point Properties dialog

•Force(F) and Torque(Τ) Vectors - see Forces toolbar > Force Vectors: Display.

Use the up / down buttons to increase or decrease the length of the vectors.

Slider to change Animation-Speed

Increase or decrease the animation-speed:

•Drag, to the left or right, with your mouse-pointer inside the Animation Speed Slider scale.

See also : Simulation-Speed