MatterControl includes many tools to help you create parts, it also has intuitive controls build right into the 3D view to help you edit parts directly.

Manipulating Parts on the bed

Moving Parts Around
- You can drag ports around with the mouse and move them up and down with the arrow at the top of a part
Rotate Controls
Scale Controls

Operations Tool Bar

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Open Library

Open the library to add designs to the bed.

Menu for opperations that can be done to the objects on the bed.

Undo and Redo

Many of the operations in MatterControl become part of the undo history and clicking these buttons or typing 'Ctrl + Z' and 'Ctrl + Y' will undo and redo them.

Arrange All

Arrange all the objects on the bed packing the together and centering as much as possible.

Lay Flat

This tool allows you to quickly get a selection to be on the bed and as flat as possible. It attempts to make the lowest face of the selected part lay flat on the bed.

Grouping and Upgrouping

Grouping: If you select multiple objects you can group the together. This will allow them to be move an operated on as if they were a single object
Ungrouping: Once objects have been grouped you can upgroup them at any time. This will also attempt to find multiple bodies in a single STL if they are present and separate them into multiple objects.

Copying and Deleting

These buttons can be used to may a copy of the selected object or delete it. You can also use the systems copy, cut, past features.

Generate Support

This allows for the gerenartion of user editable support material.

Transform

Drop down list of the transform tools

Align

This tool allows you to align multiple objects relative to each other
There is also an option to quickely align dual extrusion parts that were modeled together