Status Bar

Introduction

The Status Bar is a ribbon that appears at the bottom of the FreeCAD interface. It can display several widgets. The BIM and Draft workbenches add their own widgets to the Status Bar. It is also possible to drag a toolbar into the Status Bar.

Information and widgets

Usage information

When the pointer is over a button or menu item, the usage information of that tool is displayed in the Status Bar. This information is usually the same as the tooltip of the tool.

Preselection

When the pointer is over an object in the 3D View the Status Bar shows the preselected element of the object as well as the current 3D coordinates. This information is updated as the pointer is moved over the object. The update stops when the pointer is over an empty space in the 3D View.

Input Hints

introduced in 1.1

For most Sketcher, Draft (introduced in 26.3) and BIM (introduced in 26.3) tools, dynamic input hints are displayed in the Status Bar.

Quick Measure

introduced in 1.0

The Quick Measure feature uses the right side of the Status Bar to show measurements based on the selection in 3D View.

Depending on the selection the following measurements are displayed:

• Edge length
• Face area
• Distance between points, edges or faces
• Angle between edges
• Radius of circular edges or cylindrical faces
• introduced in 1.1: Diameter of circles and cylindrical faces
• introduced in 26.3: Diameter of circular faces
• introduced in 1.1: Axis distance between circular elements and faces, edges or other circular elements

Notifications

TBD.

Right-clicking this widget opens a context menu with the following options:

• Delete User Notifications: TBD.
• Delete All: TBD.

Navigation Styles

The Navigation Styles widget shows the current Mouse navigation style. Clicking the widget opens a menu with the available styles and a Settings submenu with the following options:

• Orbit style: See Preferences Editor.
• Compact: If this option is checked only a mouse icon is shown in the widget.
• Tooltip: If this option is checked hovering the widget will show a tooltip with detailed usage information.

Unit System

This widget provides information about the zoom level by showing the size of the current 3D View. Clicking the widget opens a menu to change the unit system of the current document, or the default unit system if there is no active document.

Context menu

Right-clicking the Status Bar opens a context menu with checkboxes to toggle the following widgets:

• introduced in 26.3: Preselection
• introduced in 26.3: Progress Indicator
• introduced in 1.1: Input Hints
• introduced in 1.1: Quick Measure
• introduced in 26.3: Bottom Panel Toggle
• introduced in 26.3: Notifications
• Navigation Styles
• introduced in 26.3: Unit System

If the pointer is over the Preselection widget or the Quick Measure widget the following options are added:

• Copy: Copies the information selected with the next option.
• Select All: Selects the current information.

The Notifications widget has its own context menu.