Mouse right click Menus/Actions
Looking at user productivity, one of the components that plays a massive part in it is command accessibility. But command accessibility is also probably the more controversial factor to discuss, the one with more variations, with each user defending their workflow or choices as “the best”. The bottom line is, the “ideal workflow”, is the one that you are comfortable using, and that allows/makes you work quicker and better (preferably with less effort involved), be it for example, by using Keyboard shortcuts, using the toolbars, or the menus drop downs to launch a command.
Customizations are a user’s long-time favourite, be it creating a customized toolbar/command, or just edit the Keyboard shortcuts, but you might overlook another option, that can also be very useful: Mouse right click Menus/Actions.
Mouse right click Menus/Actions
By default, when you click the right button of your mouse, you see something like this
Unless you are happy with these options, there is no reason why you shouldn’t make some changes, and for instance add to the menu commands you use regularly, or more often at a given stage of your project.
The Default options
Default options are exactly that: a starting point. With a couple of mouse clicks, they can be modified to completely different options that might suit you better.
Mouse Options can be found under Options> User Preferences> Mouse Options
But further customization can be achieved:
How to Customize Mouse right click Menus/Actions
- To define actions for right-clicks:
1- Click Tools > Customize Interface (or type Customize).
2- In the Customize dialog box, click Mouse Actions.
3- Expand Right Clicks.
4- For Right Click, Shift+Right Click, Ctrl+Right Click, and Ctrl+Shift+Right Click select a menu, command, command sequence, or option to be issued.
- To manage shortcut menus:
1- Click Tools > Customize Interface (or type Customize).
2- In the Customize dialog box, click Mouse Actions.
3- Expand Shortcut Menus > Common or Contextual.
4- In Menu, or in the list of shortcut menus, select a shortcut menu. You can edit common shortcut menus:
The Default Menu displays if you right-click when no command is active.
The Edit Menu displays if you right-click when drawing entities are selected.
The Command Menu displays if you right-click when a command is active and no shortcut menu is defined for that command.
The contextual menus display if you right-click when a specific command is active.
5- To insert a command or option in a shortcut menu:
Click Show command explorer.
Under Command Explorer, select an item and drag it to a menu or toolbar.
6- To replace a command or option, select an item in a shortcut menu, then select another command or option in command.
7- To remove a command from a shortcut menu, select an item in a shortcut menu and click remove (the option is available for contextual shortcut menus only).
For more information on customization, you can refer to the DraftSight Customization Guide, available here (https://swym.3ds.com/#post:2198) or to the DraftSight Help files.
