Status Bar

The Status bar displays across the bottom of active window. The status bar provides the following information:

• When you are in a command that requires you to perform an action to continue, a message displays on the far bottom left indicating the next step to proceed with the active command. If you are not in a command, the message Press F1 for more help display on the far bottom left.

• You can toggle the visibility of the status bar on and off by activating or deactivating the Status Bar check box. This check box can be found in the User Interface drop-down list which is located on the Windows panel of the View tab.

• The capacity meter displays on the far right, and gives information regarding the current state of memory consumption.

The Capacity Meter provides several pieces of information with regards to memory consumption. The meter has three indicators: total number of occurrences in the active document, total number of files open in the session, and amount of memory used by the session.

The meter can be used in Inventor Only: Restricts the display to just the Autodesk Inventor LT process. The color changes from green to yellow when more than 60% of the allotted space is used, then red once 80% has been used.

When hovering over the Capacity Meter, the tooltip displays details of used and available memory.