Data Sheet

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Work Area, Co-ordinates and Snap
It is likely that your board edge covers a small portion of the Editing Window, which is less than
ideal as all of the work will be taking place inside this area. We can of course zoom into the area
(point the mouse and roll the middle mouse button or use the F6 key) but the default zoom level
is designed to show the entire Work area. The Work area is the area inside the dark blue box at
the edges of the Editing Window. Let’s tidy this up a bit before we move on.
Start by switching into Selection Mode and then left click and drag a selection box around the
board edge.
Selection mode and the board edge selected
If you get it wrong and don’t completely cover the board edge, use the green handles to resize
the selection box until it completely encompasses the board edge.
Resizing a box by the drag handles
Now place the mouse inside the selection box, depress the left mouse button and drag into the
centre of the work area, releasing the mouse button to commit the placement.
Moving the board edge