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Tutorial
Topic
SampleTopic
Level
Beginner
Time to complete
5 minutes
Authors
Mario52
FreeCAD version
All
Example files
None
See also
None

Synopsis

This tutorial shows how to add a button for a macro to a custom toolbar.

For more general information see Interface Customization.

Usage

• Click Main Menu → Tools → Customize,

• or right click on any toolbar.

• The Customize window appears.

2. Make a Macro to a Macro-Tool

• Select the "Macro" tab.

• To add an icon for the provided macro click the Pixmap button (labelled ... ).

• Search for an appropriate icon from amongst FreeCAD's existing icons,

      [or add your own icon by clicking Add icons...].                  (expand for an example)

     [You will get a file selection window, select your custom image file (PNG format, 64x64 pixels)]

• Select your icon and click OK.

• The icon you selected is now displayed next to the Pixmap button labelled ....

• Select the provided macro in line Macro:' and specify a Menu text: (which will appear as the text label in the menu); also fill in the Tool Tip': (which is the text that will appear when a mouse is over the button on the toolbar); further lines are optional.

• Click the button Add.

• The button of the macro-tool is now created.

3. Create a toolbar outside the workbench Macro which contains the created Macro-tool

• Select the Toolbars tab and choose the workbench (for which the toolbar is provided) in the drop down on the right (Part in this example).

     [Since version 0.15 there is a   Global  toolbar. If this is selected, the provided toolbar will be in each workbench.]

• In the dropdown on the left select Macros.

• The macro-tool with its icon appears in the list.

• Click the button New...

• In the window "New Toolbar" enter the name of the provided extra toolbar for the Part Workbench and click OK

• The toolbar is now created.

• To add the created macro-tool to this toolbar, select it in the left window and then click the Button with the arrow pointing right.

• You have created now a toolbar called "Camera" (with the Macro-tool Camera in it)

• Click the Close button.

• Your new toolbar is now contained in the toolbars' right-click menu. Its Icons (in our example only the camera) are visible, if the toolbar is activated (blue checkmark).