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The zoom tool in PIPE-FLO lets you quickly zoom in and out on the FLO-Sheet. You can pan on the drawing by using the scroll bars on the side of the FLO-Sheet. This option requires you to choose the zoom tool, or move your mouse to the scroll bars.
Many of you have requested the ability to easily pan around the FLO-Sheet. In talking to the developers I discovered an undocumented feature. With PIPE-FLO version 7 you can pan and zoom using the mouse thumbwheel.
Regardless of the tool you have selected you can zoom and pan using the following thumbwheel operations.
To zoom in and out - Move the mouse over the FLO-Sheet. Rolling up on the thumbwheel zooms in, rolling down on the thumbwheel zooms out. The center of the zoom operation occurs at the position of the mouse.
To pan left and right – Move the mouse over the FLO-Sheet and hold down the Control key. Rolling up on the thumbwheel pans to the right, rolling down on the thumbwheel pans to the left.
To pan up and down – Move the mouse over the FLO-Sheet and hold down the Shift key. Rolling up on the thumbwheel pans up, rolling down on the thumbwheel pans down.
The nicest thing about this feature is it works with every tool on the button bar. For example if you are in placing pumps onto a FLO-Sheet and you need to pan to another part of the drawing you can used the mouse thumbwheel to pan to the new location without changing tools.
If your mouse has manufacturers supplied driver software, PIPE-FLO can take advantage of the extra mouse features. You will need to install the mouse driver software for your mouse and refer to the mouse instructions.
Many of you have requested the ability to easily pan around the FLO-Sheet. In talking to the developers I discovered an undocumented feature. With PIPE-FLO version 7 you can pan and zoom using the mouse thumbwheel.
Regardless of the tool you have selected you can zoom and pan using the following thumbwheel operations.
To zoom in and out - Move the mouse over the FLO-Sheet. Rolling up on the thumbwheel zooms in, rolling down on the thumbwheel zooms out. The center of the zoom operation occurs at the position of the mouse.
To pan left and right – Move the mouse over the FLO-Sheet and hold down the Control key. Rolling up on the thumbwheel pans to the right, rolling down on the thumbwheel pans to the left.
To pan up and down – Move the mouse over the FLO-Sheet and hold down the Shift key. Rolling up on the thumbwheel pans up, rolling down on the thumbwheel pans down.
The nicest thing about this feature is it works with every tool on the button bar. For example if you are in placing pumps onto a FLO-Sheet and you need to pan to another part of the drawing you can used the mouse thumbwheel to pan to the new location without changing tools.
If your mouse has manufacturers supplied driver software, PIPE-FLO can take advantage of the extra mouse features. You will need to install the mouse driver software for your mouse and refer to the mouse instructions.