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About Tool Pausing
When creating features, you may need to work in a tool that does not use the dashboard. Use on the dashboard to suspend your current workflow and open another tool. When the current tool is paused, it becomes inactive, and you are temporarily returned to the default system state, in which you can select objects that satisfy other tool requirements. You can pause a tool explicitly or automatically.
To resume a paused tool, click .