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To enable or disable a toolbar, you can right-click in a toolbar area and choose the toolbar you
are interested in enabling from a list of all the toolbars in SolidWorks. Another way to do this is
to use the Customize dialog box by choosing Tools ➢ Customize, or the Customize option near
the bottom of the RMB toolbar list. Yet another way is to choose View ➢ Toolbars.

Exploring the Heads-Up View Toolbar
The Heads-Up View toolbar appears along the middle of the top edge of the graphics window.
Figure 2.7 shows the default arrangement of the Heads-Up View toolbar, and it is shown in
relation to the rest of the interface in Figure 2.1.
Figure 2.7
The heads-Up view
toolbar

You can customize the Heads-Up View toolbar by using the Toolbars dialog box (Tools ➢
Customize ➢ Toolbars). Customization includes turning the Heads-Up View toolbar on or off and
adding or removing buttons. If you have multiple document windows or multiple view ports
showing, the Heads-Up View toolbar shows only in the active window or view port. This toolbar
often overlaps with other interface elements when the active window is small.
Exploring the Title Bar Toolbar and Menu
The Title Bar toolbar is found just to the right of the SolidWorks logo on the title bar in the top-left
corner of the SolidWorks window. By default, it contains most of the elements of the standard
toolbar, and it is available even when no documents are open. It uses mostly flyout toolbar icons,
so again it follows the trend of saving space at the expense of an extra click. This toolbar can be
customized in the same way as other toolbars in the Customize dialog box in the Commands tab.
This toolbar cannot be turned off, but you can remove all the icons from it.

NOTE you can run the SolidWorks interface from just the commandmanager without any additional
toolbars. you can do the same with just the title Bar toolbar, customizing it with all flyout toolbars.
the main advantages of the title Bar toolbar are that it is visible when no documents are open and
that it utilizes otherwise wasted space in the title bar. you might set up the interface for a 12-inch
normal-aspect-display laptop very differently from that of a desktop unit with a 24-inch-wide screen.

There is also a Title Bar menu, which is hidden by default. The SolidWorks logo in the upper
left of the SolidWorks window or the small triangle next to the logo serve as a flyout to expand
the main SolidWorks menus. You can pin the menus in place using the pushpin.