Toolbox
The Toolbox is a container for the different Plant Simulation toolbars that hold the objects of the Class Library. By default, the Toolbox window shows the built-in objects on the tabs/toolbars MaterialFlow, Resources, InformationFlow, UserInterface, User Objects, and Tools. You find the toolbars for the objects at the very bottom of their folders next to the icon 
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When you add an add-in program by clicking Manage Class Library on the Home ribbon tab, Plant Simulation also adds a tab/toolbar with the object(s) of this add-in.
While modeling, you insert the objects from the Toolbox into your simulation model. Proceed as follows:
To insert a single object, click the object with the left mouse button, drag the mouse to the Frame, in which you create your model, to the position of your choice and click the left mouse button. Repeat this until you have insert all of the required objects.
To insert an object from the Toolbox into a Frame one after the other without interruption, hold down the Ctrl key and select the object. The object remains selected in the Toolbox after inserting it and you can thus insert several of these objects one after the other. You can exit this mode by clicking the right mouse button or by pressing the Esc key.
Instead of closing and reopening the Toolbox, you can hide it: Click 
to auto hide the window. When you then click in another window, Plant Simulationhides the window until you move the mouse over the name of the window again. To deactivate auto hide, click 
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Plant Simulation displays the object with the icon named ToolboxIcon. If this icon does not exist, it displays the object with its first icon, i.e., the icon with the number 1.
The context menu of the selected object in the Toolbox provides the same commands as the Context Menu of the Selected Object in the Class Library.
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