Bird's Eye View

Calling the window:

The Bird's Eye View window helps quick navigation around the drawing. It always displays the whole drawing image, regardless of the working window size currently set for the active drawing window.

The Bird's Eye View window can be docked along any of the application window borders or stay floating.                

The modes of the Bird's Eye View window can be controlled via the context menu coming up on right mouse button click within the window.

Pan. In this mode, to move around the drawing, you need to specify two corners of the rectangular area in the general view window. To do this, move the cursor to the general view window, press and hold the left mouse button, move the mouse so that the appeared cursor in the form of a "rubber thread" captures the desired part of the drawing, and release the mouse button. After that, the specified area in the general view window will be highlighted in a different color, and the corresponding area of the drawing, proportionally enlarged, will be drawn in the window of the current drawing.

Zoom. In this mode, if you move the cursor over the general view window, a rectangle cursor will appear showing the area of ​​the drawing that you want to select. The size of the rectangle is proportional to the size of the current drawing window. If you keep the left mouse button pressed and move the rectangle across the general view window, the drawing image in the current drawing window will dynamically change in accordance with the movement of the rectangle.

The modes are controlled by setting the corresponding option in the menu, which is called by pressing the right mouse button when the cursor points to the general view window. Using the menu, you can update the drawing in the general view window by selecting the Update option, you can remove the general view window from the screen by selecting the Hide option.

To set the general view window redrawing modes, select the Properties option from the menu.

A dialog box for setting the window Update mode will appear on the screen. The mode After all edits means that the drawing image in the general view window will be updated only when changing (recalculating) the drawing model. The After redraws only means that the image in the window will be updated along with the update of the drawing in the current drawing window. The Don't Update mode means that the image in the window will only be refreshed when the Update option is selected from the menu.