Data Sheet

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Guided Tour
The largest area of the screen is called the Editing Window, and it acts as a window on the
drawing - this is where you will place and wire-up components. The smaller area at the top left
of the screen is called the Overview Window. In normal use the Overview Window displays, as
its name suggests, an overview of the entire drawing - the blue box shows the edge of the
current sheet and the green box the area of the sheet currently displayed in the Editing Window.
However, when a new object is selected from the Object Selector the Overview Window is used
to preview the selected object - this is discussed later.
Schematic Capture Window
If you don’t like the default layout of the toolbars you can pick them up and dock them on any of
the four sides of the application. Similarly you can move the Object Selector & Overview
Window pane across to the right hand side of the application by dragging the end of it all the
way across to the other side.
Toolbars and menu options will switch according to which tab is active (at the front).
Throughout this tutorial when we refer to an icon or a menu command we are
assuming that the schematic tab is active.
Right clicking the mouse either in the Object Selector or in the Overview Window will provide a
context menu, including the option to ‘auto hide’ the left hand pane. This is extremely useful if
you want to maximise the editing area of the application. When enabled the Object Selector and
Overview Window will be minimised to a ‘flyout bar’ at the left (or right) of the application by
default and will appear either when the mouse is placed over the bar or when the mode of
operation is changed by selecting a different icon.