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If you select the Customize ➪ Show UI ➪ Show Floating Toolbars menu command, several additional tool-
bars appear. These are floating toolbars. You also can make them appear by selecting them individually from
the toolbar right-click pop-up menu. These floating toolbars include Axis Constraints, Layers, reactor,
Extras, Render Shortcuts, Snaps, Animation Layers, and Brush Presets.
Using tooltips and flyouts
All icon buttons (including those found in toolbars, the Command Panel, and other dialog boxes and win-
dows) include tooltips, which are identifying text labels. If you hold the mouse cursor over an icon button,
the tooltip label appears. This feature is useful for identifying buttons. If you can’t remember what a specific
button does, hold the cursor over the top of it and the tooltip gives you its name.
All toolbar buttons with a small triangle in the lower-right corner are flyouts. A flyout is a single toolbar but-
ton that expands to reveal additional buttons. Click and hold on the flyout to reveal the additional icons,
and drag to select one. Figure 1.4 shows the flyout for the Align button on the main toolbar.
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Flyout menus bundle several toolbar buttons together.
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Learning the main toolbar
On smaller resolution screens, the main toolbar is too long to be entirely visible. To see the entire main tool-
bar, you need to set your monitor resolution to be at least 1280 pixels wide. To scroll the toolbar to see the
end, position the cursor on the toolbar away from the buttons, such as below one of the drop-down lists
(the cursor changes to a hand); then click and drag the toolbar in either direction. Using the hand cursor to
scroll also works in the Command Panel, Material Editor, and any other place where the panel exceeds the
given space.
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Toolbar buttons that open dialog boxes such as the Layer Manager, Material Editor, and Render Scene but-
tons are toggle buttons. When the dialog box is open, the button is highlighted yellow, indicating that the
dialog box is open. Clicking on a highlighted toggle button closes the dialog box. Corresponding menus
(and keyboard shortcuts) work the same way, with a small check mark appearing to the left of the menu
command when a dialog box is opened.
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