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Status bar

From left to right in the image above, the Status Bar shows the following:

• Status message: Displays messages and progress information about your actions in the current tool. You can view these messages in the top left of the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace. by selecting Show status messages in design window in the Popular options.
• Quick measurement: Displays simple measurements of the selected object(s), such as the distance between two objects or the X, Y, Z coordinate of a point. See Quick measurements. Use the Measure tool for other types of measurements, such as volume and mass.
• Error and warning messages: Displays error messages as they occur. Click the icon to display all the messages currently relevant to your design. Click a message to highlight the object referenced by the message. Double-click a message to select the object(s) referenced by the message.
• Selection list: Shows you a list of objects you currently have selected. Hover over the list area on the status bar to see a complete list. When Pattern is selected in the Structure treeDisplay in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design. You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects. You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components., the selection list updates to display the number of patterns included in the design.
• Select Parents or Select Children : Depending on the selection, you can select the parents (up arrow) of the currently selected objects or the children (down arrow) of the currently selected objects.
• Revert selection : Reverts your selection to your previous selection.
• Selection filterDrop-down control in the status bar that can be used to limit the selection of objects. Only object types you check will be selected; for example, only faces and edges. : Allows you to choose what can be selected in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace.. A label in the status bar, located to the left of the selected object status, displays the currently pre-selected object.
• Selection mode : Choose Box, Lasso, or Paint.
• ViewOrientation settings that you can apply to your design, including spin, pan, and zoom. You can adjust these settings individually or you can apply one of the following preconfigured views: Trimetric, Isometric, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Right, Left. You can also select Snap View and click a face to view it head-on. controls: Use these controls to spin, pan, zoom, and switch to previous or next views. You can also change your view using the tools found in the Orient group, which is found on most tabs.