How to Use Right Click Menus in BricsCAD
Quick answer: Right-click (context) menus show commands relevant to whatever’s under your cursor or currently selected. What a quick right-click actually does depends on whether the Quad is active: if it is, a quick right-click brings up the Quad instead of the context menu, you need to hold the button down a bit longer to get the context menu itself.
What a Long Right-Click Does
Holding the right mouse button down slightly longer than a normal click, a “long right-click”, is how you reach the context menu specifically, whenever a quick right-click is already being used for something else, like showing the Quad or repeating your last command.
Right-Click Behaviour by Situation
| Situation | Quick right-click | Long right-click |
|---|---|---|
| Quad is active | Shows the Quad (or, if QUADCOMMANDLAUNCH is set to launch directly, runs its default command) |
Shows the context menu instead |
| Quad is not active, nothing selected | Repeats your most recently used command | Shows the context menu |
Either way, once the context menu appears, its content depends on the current entity or selection, it’s not a fixed, generic list.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does right-clicking sometimes repeat my last command instead of showing a menu? That happens when the Quad isn’t active and nothing’s selected. A quick right-click repeats your last command in that situation; hold it longer for the context menu instead.
How do I get the context menu when the Quad is active? Hold the right mouse button down a bit longer than a normal click.
Does the context menu always show the same options? No, its content depends on whatever entity or selection is current when you open it.