Data Sheet

LABCENTER ELECTRONICS LTD.

Panning

As with zooming, there are a number of options for panning across the editing window.

Click on the middle mouse button to enter track pan mode. This puts the schematic in a

mode where the entire sheet is picked up and will move as you move the mouse. The

track pan cursor will indicate when you have entered this mode. Left click the mouse

again to exit track pan mode.

To simply 'pan' the Editing Window up, down, left or right, position the mouse pointer over

the desired part of the Editing Window and press the F5 key.

Hold the SHIFT key down and bump the mouse against the edges of the Editing Window

to pan up, down, left or right. We call this Shift Pan.

Should you want to move the Editing Window to a completely different part of the

drawing, the quickest method is to simply point at the centre of the new area on the

Overview Window and click left.

Use the Pan Icon on the toolbar

Note that when using the track pan method above you can also zoom in and out by

rolling the mouse wheel. So, click the middle mouse button to pick up the sheet and

move the sheet by moving the mouse and zoom the sheet by rolling the middle

mouse button. Left click to 'drop' the sheet and exit track pan mode.

It is well worth spending a few moments familiarising yourself with navigation in Proteus - it is

after all one of the most common operations you will perform. In particular, learning to use the

middle mouse button both for track pan and for zooming will save you time during schematic

design.

A grid of dots or lines can be displayed in the Editing Window as a visual aid using the Grid

command on the View menu, or by pressing 'G' to toggle the grid from ‘dots’, ‘lines’ or ‘off, or by

clicking the Grid Icon on the toolbar. The grid helps in lining up components and wires and is

less intimidating than a blank screen. If you find it hard to see the grid dots or lines, either adjust

the contrast on your monitor slightly (by default the grid is displayed in light grey) or change

their colour with the Set Design Defaults on the Template menu.

Below the Overview Window is the Object Selector (sometimes known as a 'parts bin') which

you use to select devices, symbols and other library objects. We'll familiarise ourselves further

with using the Object Selector later.

Finally, at the bottom of the screen is the co-ordinate display, which reads out the co-ordinates

of the mouse pointer when appropriate. These co-ordinates are in 1 thou units and the origin is

in the centre of the drawing

Origin Co-ordinates