Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar is adjacent to the Application Menu (near the top left corner). It provides convenient access to several commonly used controls. The default tools in the Quick Access Toolbar are summarized:

1. New

Use New to create a new design study from a geometry file (instead of launching from CAD).

On the New Design Study dialog, click Browse and select a geometry file. There are several supported formats, so select the desired one from the file type menu.
Specify a name for the Design Study.
Click Create new design study.

New on the Quick Access toolbar and New on the Start & Learn tab perform the same function.

Note: Names of Design Studies, Designs, and Scenarios must not contain punctuation such as "<", ">", "?", ":", "/", "]", "[", "\", ".", ",", or " ' "

2. Open

Click Open to either open an existing design study or a share file.

The Design Study is the highest level in the Autodesk® CFD file structure, and the only level that can be directly opened. Designs and Scenarios are accessed within the Design Study.

Note: The file extension of the Design Study file is cfdst. The file extension of a share file is cfz.

For more about the Design Study structure...

3. Save

Click Save to save the current Design Study. All scenarios and designs in the design study are saved at this time.

4. Save Share File

The Share file is a reduced-size version of the Design Study file, and is useful for archiving and sending to others (including Autodesk® CFD Technical Support).

To create a share file, click Save Share File from the Quick Access Toolbar. You will be prompted to select which Designs and Scenarios to include in the Share File by selecting them from the Share File dialog.

There are several levels of share files, and each level saves a different amount of content from the selected scenarios. Specify how much content you wish to save by selecting one of the Share File options:

File Type	Description	Use
Support (_support.cfz)	Only set up parameters are included. Because no mesh or results data are saved, this is the most compact version of the share file	Ideal for sending to Autodesk® CFD Technical Support
Archive	The set up parameters, mesh, and the last saved result set are saved. An Archive share file can be run without regenerating the mesh.	Ideal if results from many iterations had been saved throughout the analysis, but only the last one is needed to be saved.
All results sets	Contains the set up parameters and all results sets, but not the mesh.	Use if you want to be able to examine results, but do not intend to run the analysis again.
Last results set	Contains the set up parameters and the last saved result set, but not the mesh.	Use if you want to be able to examine the results from only the last saved iteration, but do not intend to run the analysis again.
Everything	This is the most comprehensive of the options. It saves all contents (set up parameters, mesh, and all results sets) of the Design Study	Use this if you need to examine intermediate results and continue the analysis.

5. Selection Mode

Specify the selection mode by selecting Volume, Surface, or Edge.

For more about Selection Modes...

6. Visual Style

Control the appearance of the model. Visual Style opens a menu containing the same appearance options available from the Visual Style menu on the View tab.

For more about Visual Style options...

7. Selection List

Toggle the display of the Selection List.

In the Setup tasks, The Selection List displays the names of items selected while defining the simulation model. Knowing which items are selected facilitates the setup of complex models. In the Planes and Iso Surfaces Results tasks, the Selection List lists all planes and iso surfaces, respectively.

For more about the Selection List...

Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar can easily be customized with additional controls from the Ribbon.

To customize the Quick Access Toolbar

To add an individual control, right click in the control, and select Add to Quick Access Toolbar.
To add an entire panel, right click on a control in the panel, and select Add Group to Quick Access Toolbar.

To organize controls or groups of controls with a vertical separator:

To add a separator, right click on the button to the left of the desired location of the separator, and click Add Separator.
To remove a command or a separator, right click on the object, and click Remove from Quick Access Toolbar.

To locate the Toolbar above or below the ribbon

Click the drop-down arrow on the right edge of the Quick Access toolbar, and select the desired option.