Main Menu Changes
The organization of the main menu has been updated to make it easier to access the tools and to reflect the structure of the Toolbox.
Basic | Standard | Professional |
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Differences from Previous Versions of Shade
Select Menu
The Select menu has been added, which contains various select tools that were previously listed in the Tools and Mesh menus.

Menu items moved from the Figure Menu
- Editing Mode
- Selection Mode
Menu items moved from Tools > Modify
- Next / Previous
Menu items moved from the Mesh Menu
- Hide Selected Faces / Hide Unselected Faces / Flip Hidden Faces / Show All Faces
- Mesh Selection Type / Mesh Selection Mode
- Selected Edges / Selected Vertices
- Invert Selection / Select Loop / Select Boundary Edges / Select Contiguous Surface / Select Coplanar Surface / Select Manifold Surface / Deselect All
- Detect
Newly Added Features
- Expand Selection / Shrink Selection / Select Ring / Select Inner-Region Faces
- Concave Faces / Negative Curvature Vertices / Small Elements / Planar Faces
Tools Menu
The Modify tools have been arranged in the same organization as that found on the Modify tab of the Toolbox, using the sub-menus Modify: Surface, Modify: Mesh, and Modify: Tools.

Menu items moved from the Mesh Menu
- UV
Figure Menu
Coordinates-related items and Manipulator pivot items have been combined into submenus.

Combined items
- Coordinates
- Global
- Local
- Local Axis
- Create Local Axis
- Save Local Axis
- Auto Local Axis
- Pivot
- Settings (Previously "Pivot Settings")
- Pivot Reset