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There are three types of menus in the Drawing Environment:

 

•Pull-down menus

•Toolbars

•Ribbon menus

 

All three are complete in the sense that all important commands are available in them.

 

The Drawing Environment is equipped with two parallel workspaces for each symbol library. One is called cadett ELSA Ribbons. That’s the new contemporary one. The other one is called cadett ELSA Classic, and that is exactly what it sounds like, a legacy mode.

 

•If you activate cadett ELSA Classic, you will get a menu system and a look that is very similar to cadett ELSA R32, with old style menus.

 

•If you activate cadett ELSA Ribbons, all the pull-down menus and toolbars are hidden and replaced with modern ribbon menus.

 

A new important term has been introduced: “Alternate Document Type”. You can activate an alternate document type to create documents other than circuit diagrams. These include:

 

•Cabinet layout

•Cable/harness diagrams

•Wiring diagrams

•Block diagrams

 

The menus are changed when activating such an alternate document type, to give access to suitable tools. Even the colour of the menus change to reflect that the software is in fact running in an alternate mode.

 

The figure below shows how information of current symbol library and document type is displayed in the lower left corner of the Drawing Environment window, and how similar information of current workspace is displayed in the lower right corner.