Status Bar and Capacity Meter

• In a command that requires you to perform an action to continue, a message displays at the 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 displays on the far bottom left.

• You can turn the visibility of the status bar on and off. On the ribbon, click the View tab, Windows panel, User Interface drop-down, and select or clear the Status Bar check box.

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

When a 2D sketch or 3D sketch is active, the status bar displays commands specific to the sketch environment.

2D Sketch status bar commands

	Snap to Grid	Restricts the movement of the cursor to a rectangular grid when a sketch command is active.
	Show All Constraints / Hide All Constraints	Displays or hides all glyphs for constraints applied to sketch geometry.
	Value	Displays dimension as a value using settings specified in the Document Settings dialog box.
	Name	Displays dimension as a name as defined in the Parameters dialog box.
	Expression	Displays dimension as an expression using the equal sign.
	Tolerance	Displays dimension tolerance.
	Precise Value	Displays the dimension value, ignoring any precision setting.
	Slice Graphics	Removes the display of the geometry in front of the active sketch plane. This is a display setting only and does not affect the geomery.
	Show All Degrees of Freedom / Hide All Degrees of Freedom	Displays or hides glyphs that represent unconstrained geometry.

3D Sketch status bar commands

	Value	Displays dimension as a value using settings specified in the Document Settings dialog box.
	Name	Displays dimension as a name as defined in the Parameters dialog box.
	Expression	Displays dimension as an expression using the equal sign.
	Tolerance	Displays dimension tolerance.
	Precise Value	Displays the dimension value, ignoring any precision setting.

The capacity meter displays on the far right. When you hover the cursor over the capacity meter, a tooltip displays the:

• Total number of occurrences in the active document.
• Total number of files open in the session.
• 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.