Map View Ribbon Tab
Context-sensitive tab — appears when a map window is active. Open one with Windows → New Map Window on the Home tab.
Commands available on the Map View ribbon tab, and how the map window behaves.
The map window
The map window draws the project in plan: the footprints of meshes, point clouds, tiled models and surveys; polylines, faults, scan lines, sections, measurements and geobodies; orientations with strike-and-dip symbols; palaeocurrents; photos with their headings; waypoints, samples, control points, stratigraphic markers, labels, scan positions and flight paths. Dense points cluster until you zoom in, and a dot marks where the 3D camera is.
A project with a coordinate system is drawn over a basemap, with a Geology (Macrostrat) overlay, and the status bar reads latitude and longitude as well as project X and Y. A project with none is drawn in project metres on a grid, with Basemap greyed out.
| Mouse | What it does |
|---|---|
| Wheel, drag | Zoom and pan the map. |
| Click a feature | Select it in the tree and show its properties. Selecting it in the tree highlights it on the map. |
| Double-click a feature | Fly the 3D view to a plan view above it. |
| Right-click a feature | The object's own right-click menu from the tree. |
The layer control at the top right of the map switches each kind of object on and off, and picks the basemap. Ticking an object in a tree shows or hides it on the map straight away. Edited geometry waits for Refresh.
Home
Reset View
Tooltip: Fit the map
Zoom the map to fit every plotted object.
Refresh
Tooltip: Refresh the map
Rebuild the map from the project. This picks up edited geometry and a changed coordinate system.
Basemap
Tooltip: Basemap
Choose what the project is drawn over: Streets (OpenStreetMap), Terrain (OpenTopoMap), Satellite (Esri imagery) or None. Needs a project coordinate system and an internet connection for the tiles.
Measure
Tooltip: Measure distances
Click points on the map to measure a path. Double-click or Esc finishes the path. Click Measure again to turn the tool off.
Hillshade
Tooltip: Hillshade the surfaces
Draw a nadir hillshade of every visible mesh under the map features, as a Hillshade entry in the layer control. It is rebuilt when the meshes change. Orthophotos and 2D rasters are drawn the same way without asking, as Orthophotos and Rasters entries.
Save PNG
Tooltip: Save the map as an image
Save what the map window shows as a PNG image.
Save PDF
Tooltip: Save the map as a PDF
Print the map window to a landscape PDF.