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Schematic View Menus 693
Zoom Tool —
Activates the zoom tool. Lets you
move closer to or fur t her from the Schematic
display.
Zoom R egion Tool —Lets you dr aw a zoom window
on the a rea of the Schematic view you want to see
up close.
Zoom Ex t ents—Zooms the window back so all the
nodes in the Schematic View are visible.
Zoom Extents Selected —Zooms the window back
so that all the selected nodes are visible in the
display.
Show Gr id—Displaysagridinthebackgroundof
the Schematic View w indow.
Show B ack ground—Displays an image in the
background of the Schematic View window.
Refresh V iew—Redraws the contents of the
Schematic View window with all changes made to
it or with changes made in the scene.
Layout Menu
Display Floater—Displays or hides the Display
Floater which controls what is displayed in the
Schematic View window.
Align—Lets you define the follow ing alignment
options:
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Lef t —Aligns selected entities to the left edge of
the selec tion, leaving vertical positioning intact.
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Right—Aligns selected entities to the right edge
of the selection, leaving vertical positioning
intact.
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Top—Aligns selected entities to the top edge of
the selection, leaving horizontal positioning
intact.
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Bottom—Aligns selected entities to the b ottom
edge of the selec tion, leaving horizont a l
positioning intact.
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Center Hori zontal—Aligns selected entities to
the horizontal center of the selection, leaving
vertical positioning intact.
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Cent er Vertical—Alig ns selected entities to
the vertical center of the selection, leaving
horizontal positioning intact.
Expand Selected—Reveals the display of all child
entities of selected entity.
Collaps e S elected—Hides the display of all children
of selected entity, leaving the selected entity visible.
Hide S elected—Performs the action of hiding
whatever is selected in the Schematic View
window.
Show All—Displays everything in the scene in the
Schematic View window.
Arrange Children—Ar ranges the display of children
based on s et arrangement rules (align options)
below the selected parent.
Ar ra nge S elected—Arranges the display of children
based on s et arrangement rules (align options)
below the selected parent.
Free S elected—Frees all selected entities from
arrangement rules, tags them with a hole icon on
their lef t end and leaves them i n place. Use this to
freely arr ange selected objects.
Free All—Frees all entities from arrangement rules,
tags them w ith a hole icon on their left end and
leaves them in place. Use this to freely arrange all
objects.
Shrink S elected—Hides all selected entities’ boxes,
keeps arrangement and relationships visible.
Unshr ink Selected—Makes all selected shrunk
entities visible.
Unshrink All—Makes all shrunk entities visible.
Toggle Shrink—Changes the state of entity
shrinkage. Shrunk entities become unshrunk, and
the other way around.