Menu bar

The menu bar is placed at top from QElectroTech interface. QElectroTech contains the menus File, Edit, Project, Display, Settings, Windows and Help. Each menu provides many diferent options.

Note

A brief description of each menu option can be read from help or information tool bar by hovering over the option with the cursor.

File menu

Figure: QElectroTech file menu

Option	Function	Keyboard shortcut	Icon
Latest files	Opens a project from history (recently opened files)
New	Creates a new Project	Ctrl + n
Open	Opens an existing project	Ctrl + o
Save	Saves the current project and all its folios	Ctrl + s
Save as	Saves the current project with a different file name
Close	Closes the current project	Ctrl + w
Export	Exports the curret folio to another format	Ctrl + Shift + x
Print	Print one or more folio of the current project	Ctrl + p
Quit	Closes QElectroTech	Ctrl + q/ Alt + F4

Edit menu

Figure: QElectroTech edit menu

Option	Function	Keyboard shortcut	Icon
Undo	Undoes the previous action	Ctrl + z
Redo	Restores the undone action	Ctrl + y
Cut	Puts selected elements into the clipboard	Ctrl + x
Copy	Copies selected elements	Ctrl + c
Paste	Pastes elements from the clipboard into the folio	Ctrl + v
Select All	Selects all elments on the folio	Ctrl + a
Select none	Deselect all elments on the folio	Ctrl + Shift + a
Invert selection	Inverts selection of elements	Ctrl + i
Delete	Removes selected elements from the folio	Del
Rotate	Rotates selected elements and texts	Space
Choose texts orientation	Rotates selected texts to a specific angle	Ctrl + Space
Find in the panel	Finds the selected element in the collections panel
Edit the selected object	Displays properties for the selected element / conductor	Ctrl + e
Group selected texts
Reset conductors	Resets the conductors path ignoring the user changes	Ctrl + k
Folio properties	Edits the properties of the folio	Ctrl + l
Add a column	Adds a column to the folio
Remove a column	Removes a column from the folio
Add a row	Adds a row to the folio
Remove a row	Removes a row from the folio
Bring to front	Brings the selection (s) to front	Ctrl + Shift + Home
Raise	Aproachs the selection (s)	Ctrl + Shift + Up
Lower	Moves away the selection (s)	Ctrl + Shift + Down
Send backwards	Sends in the backwards the selection (s)	Ctrl + Shift + End
Search / Replace	Display Search / Replace panel	Ctrl + f

Project menu

Figure: QElectroTech project menu

Option	Function	Keyboard shortcut	Icon
Project properties	Display project properties PopUp window
Add a folio	Adds a new folio (drawing sheet) to the active project.	Ctrl + t
Delete this folio	Deletes the active folio (drawing sheet) of the project
Clean project	Purges the active project of unused elements and empty categories and templates
Add a summary	Creates an index table for the active project
Add a nomenclature	Creates a Bill Of Material (BOM) table for the active project
Export to CSV	Generates a .csv file summary of elements used in the active project according to defined filtering options
Export the list of names of wires	Generates a .csv file summary of conductors used in the active project
Launch the terminal block creation pluging
Export the internal project database	Generates a SQLite database of the active project

Display menu

Figure: QElectroTech display menu

Option	Function	Keyboard shortcut	Icon
Display projects	Shows the various opened projects in windows or tabs
Select	Allows to select elements
Move	Allows to view the folio without modifying it
Display the grid	Displays or hidden the grid of folio
Background color white / gray	Displays the background color of the folio in white or gray
Zoom In	Expands the folio	Ctrl + +
Zoom Out	Shrinks the folio	Ctrl + -
Zoom content	Adjusts the zoom to display all the content of folio regardless of context	Ctrl + 8
Fit in view	Adjusts the zoom on exactly trhe part of the folio	Ctrl + 9
Reset zoom	Restores default zoom level	Ctrl + 0

Settings menu

Figure: QElectroTech settings menu

Option	Function	Keyboard shortcut	Icon
Display	Displays or hides toolbars and panels
Full screen mode	Displays QElectroTech in full screen mode	Ctrl + Shift + f
Configure QElectroTech	Allows specifying various parameters for QElectroTech

Windows menu

Figure: QElectroTech windows menu

Option	Function	Keyboard shortcut	Icon
Close	Closes the current project	Ctrl + f4
Tile	Adds a new drawing sheet to the active project. (Folio means drawing sheet)
Cascade	Deletes the active drawing of the project
Next Project	Activates the next project	Ctrl + tab
Previous Project	Activates the previous project	Ctrl + Shift + Backtab
(Opened Projects)	Below Previous Project QElectroTech list all opened projects to select the active project

Help menu

Figure: QElectroTech help menu

Option	Function	Keyboard shortcut	Icon
What’s This?	Enquires main menu options	Shift + f1
About QElectroTech	Displays information about QElectroTech
Online manual	Lauches the default browser to the online manual of QElectroTech	f1
Youtube channel	Lauches the default browser on the Youtube channel of QElectroTech
Support the project with a donation	Lauches the default browser on the QElectroTech donation paypal account
About Qt	Displays information about Qt library