Working with the Ribbon

You can access application features in the ribbon through dedicated menus and tabs.

1. In the ribbon, click the appropriate menu or tab.

   Commands in the...	Allow you to...
   File menu	Manage your files, including publishing to many formats, and set application and document properties.
   Home tab	Copy, cut, and paste content. Access commonly used workshops and entire animation mode. Manage actor visibility in the scene. Use the Digger tool as a magnifying glass to isolate areas of your scene. Navigate the viewport by moving the position and orientation of the camera.
   Render tab	Control scene lighting and rendering characteristics.
   Author tab	Enhance models with 3D redlining, annotations, dimensions, and other collaborative actors.
   Styles tab	View the style gallery, apply styles to actors, and subscribe actors to styles. Use the Styles workshop to create and manage styles.
   Transform tab	Translate and rotate alignments, and explode actors.
   Geometry tab	Manipulate geometry actors.
   Animate tab	Animate your scenes.
   Workshops tab	Launch a specific workshop.
   Window tab	Manage Composer window panes and document windows.
   Help tab	Register the product, access product documentation, and manage your license.

   The dedicated commands appear.

2. Click the command you want to use.

You can minimize the ribbon interface to increase the space available for the viewport and other Composer panes.

You can search for commands that appear in the ribbon and recently used documents.

1. On the ribbon, click in the Start Search box.

2. Type the name of the command or recent document you are looking for.

   Ribbon commands and recently accessed documents that contain the search string appear.

3. Click a command to execute it or a document to open it.

Notes:

• The search is limited to commands that appear on the ribbon.
• If the command is on the current ribbon tab, the command is highlighted. If the command is on a different tab, the current tab does not change.