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At a glance

  • Grid and mesh view toggles mirror the View menu and persist across sessions
  • Fit command frames everything visible on visible layers

The Design sidebar has two sections: a View block on top and the Layers list below it. It's deliberately small — Design has no feature tree to browse, so the panel only holds what you toggle while working.

View toggles

Grid and Meshes are pill toggles wired to the same state as the View menu, so flipping one updates the other. Grid shows the reference grid (styled to match the Drafting sketch grid); Meshes turns on the filled cut-part preview described in palette-driven layers. Both settings persist across sessions on your machine, overriding whatever a document was saved with, so the workspace comes back up the way you left it.

Fit

The Fit tool (F, also on the ViewCube strip and in the View menu) frames every visible shape on every visible layer. Hidden layers are excluded, which makes it a quick way to zoom to just the part of a design you're working on: hide everything else, hit F.

Layers

The Layers section lists only layers that shapes actually use, each with its color swatch, name, and an eye visibility toggle on the right — the active layer row is marked, matching the highlighted swatch in the bottom palette. Rename, recolor, and per-layer export all happen from the row itself; see palette-driven layers for how layers are created and assigned in the first place.