Chapter 2
Beginning a Design
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When you display a design on the full screen, everything except the design
disappears (depending on your settings in the
Preferences
dialog box,
scrollbars may or may not appear). Menu functions can still be used
through their keyboard shortcuts—for example, you can use F8 to zoom in,
and F9 to zoom out. Again, depending on the
Preferences
dialog box
settings, you may be able to pan through the design by moving your cursor
over the outside edges.
To switch the workspace to a full screen display, choose
View»Full
Screen
.
Complete the following steps to return from the full screen display to the
multi-screen display:
1.
Locate the
Full Screen Close
button. It will be floating over the
design.
2.
Click the
Full Screen Close
button to return to the multi-pane display.
Magnifying and Shrinking the View
You can use the zoom functions to magnify or shrink all or part of the
design.
To magnify part of the design, choose
View»Zoom In
, or press <F8>. You
may need to adjust your view of the magnified design by using the scroll
bars.
Complete the following to magnify a selected area on the design:
1.
Choose
View»Zoom Window
, or press <F6>, then click and drag a
rectangular area on the board to define the area to be zoomed in on.
Or
Define an area by clicking and dragging in the
Birds Eye View
.
To shrink the view of the design, choose
View»Zoom Out
, or press <F9>.
To return to the full view of the design after zooming in or out, press <F7>.
