Several ways to open the Properties Panel

The Properties Panel in CAD program is commonly used to check the properties of an object and sometimes to modify the properties or parameters of one or multiple objects, as shown in the following picture,

The easiest way to toggle on and off the Properties Panel is by pressing CTRL + 1. Indeed, the Properties Panel is very commonly used and there are many ways to open it, let’s find out more.

  1. Command access: PROPERTIES, as shown in the following picture,

2. Alias: CH, as shown in the following picture,

3. Alias: MO, as shown in the following picture,

4. CTRL +1 to toggle if on/off

5. Menu: Modify > Properties, as shown in the following picture,

6. Tools > Palettes > Properties, as shown in the following picture,

7. After selecting an object, just right-click to open the right-click menu, select the Properties, as shown in the following picture to open the Properties Panel,

8. Ribbon: Find the Properties from the default Home tab and click on the small arrow icon as shown in the following picture,

9. Find the View tab, and find the Properties, as shown in the following picture,

The above are nine ways to open the entire Properties Panel, what are your preferred ways to open it? Share your experience with us, we’d like to hear from you.


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