Top Menu Bar

The Top Menu bar contains menus for controlling Ansys Electronics Desktop and the various editors and viewers. Click on a Top Menu bar entry to open its menu. In addition, the Alt key makes it easy to access the Top Menu bar menus.

• A menu in the Top Menu bar can be opened by clicking the Alt key and then pressing the underlined letter of the menu you wish to activate (the underlines appear when the Alt key is pressed).
• Clicking the Alt key enables you to scroll across the Top Menu bar, opening the menus, by pressing the left (Ü) and right (Þ) arrow keys.

Once a menu is open, you can use the down (ß) and up (Ý) arrows to change the selection. You can use the right (Þ) arrow key to open a subordinate menu for the selected command. Operations on the menus can be executed in three ways:

• Clicking on the operation.
• Typing the underlined letter as shown in the menu (for example, typing the “n” in New on the File menu). Type all underlined letters in lower case.
• Using a shortcut key combination as shown in the menu (for example, Ctrl+N for the New command on the File menu. Shortcut key combinations are valid whether or not the menu is visible. See Shortcut Keys to locate topics with listings of various types of shortcuts.

Shortcut Menu in the Toolbars Area

Use the shortcut menu in the toolbars area of the desktop to toggle the show/hide settings for various desktop windows and toolbars. To access the shortcut menu, right-click in the toolbars area at the top of the desktop.

When a project is loaded, from left to right, the Ansys Electronics Desktop drop-down menus are:

File   Edit   View   Project   Draw    Design-Editor   Tools   Window   Help

These menus are described in the following sections.