The Ribbon Menu

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The Ribbon Menu

The Ribbon menu is home to hundreds of commands. It consists of several ribbon pages filled with commands and appears at the top of DEX's main window.

You make changes to your design using:

The Ribbon Menu

Interacting with the viewports using the mouse and keyboard.

Making changes using one of the many panels.

  brightIdea The ribbon pages and their content are context sensitive and will only appear where applicable, for instance, the PCB Ribbon Page will only appear when editing a PCB in a project.

 

You can easily customize the command keyboard shortcuts using the Shortcuts Editor.

The Ribbon menu consists of the following ribbon pages:

The Home Ribbon Page

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The Help Ribbon Page

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The Panels Ribbon Page

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The Symbol Ribbon Page

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The Schematic Ribbon Page

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The Footprint Ribbon Page

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The PCB Ribbon Page

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The Route Ribbon Page

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The View/Snap Ribbon Page

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The Edit Ribbon Page

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The Add Ribbon Page

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The Parts Ribbon Page

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The Layout Ribbon Page

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The Simulate Schematic Page

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The Tools Ribbon Page

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The 3D Ribbon Page

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