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Visualization
The different tools allowing you to explore your project in the visualization window are stored in the View menu, it regroups the following elements:
Previous zoom (<): go back to the previous displayed scale, available only if you have once changed the scale
Zoom by rectangle (Z): This tool uses a click-release action, click on the left button of the mouse and drag it, it makes a rectangular ghost. The zoom factor is inversely proportional to the size of the rectangle. The type of zoom is determined by the direction of the drag:
Left to right: zoom in
Right to left: zoom out
Pan (H): Move the map with a drag and drop action
Zoom to full extend (Ctrl+0): Adjust the scale to display all the activated layers
Zoom to frame (Ctrl+1): Adjust the scale to display the frame.
zoom to layer (Ctrl+2): Adjust the scale to display the whole selected layer
Refresh (Ctrl+R): Refresh the screen
Symbology
The symbology windows allow you to manage the style of each layer. You have several options available depending of the layer style. They are accessible by double clicking on the layer name in the table of content or with the option Symbology… of the contextual menu.
Points
Points style management: you can change the color and the radius of the points
Transparency management
Apply or cancel the modifications
The points have an additional option found on the other tab of the window (multiple). Under this tab you are able to attribute two different symbology to your lines. The differentiation of the points is made through the queries.
Query selected for the differentiation
symbology management of the two classes
transparency management
The symbology is directly connected to the attribution of the point, changing its attributes may instantly change its symbology. This option can be very helpful to highlight specific classes.
Lines
Lines style management, you can change the color the width and the symbol of the lines. There are six choices of shape. Choices are:
Solid line
Dotted line
Dashed line
Dot-dashed line
Transparant line: The Transparent line option may be used to hide the lines.
Oriented line: The Oriented line option display a double line: solid and dotted side by side. This option can be used to check for consistency when some lines have to be drawn in a certain direction.
Transparency management
Apply or cancel the modifications
The lines have an additional option found on the other tab of the window (multiple). Under this tab you are able to attribute two different symbology to your lines. The differentiation of the lines is made through the queries.
Query selected for the differenciation
symbology management of the two classes
in this case the selected features are all the lines with the “Bedrock_PLG” attribution
transparency management
The symbology is directly connected to the attribution of the line, changing its attributes may instantly change its symbology. This option can be very helpful to highlight specific structures.
Polygons
Polygons style management: you can change the border width and color as the fill color and style. Following styles are available:
Solid fill
Backward Diagonal hatch
Forward Diagonal hatch
Cross hatch
Vertical hatch
No Fill
Transparency management
Apply or cancel the modifications
If your imported polygons have attributes, you can class them to have a multiple symbology. (see also Redactor mode)
List of attribute header
List of the different attributes related to the header
Symbology controls:
Classify: Generate the classes depending of your choice in (1)
Add: Add a new class, you will have to write the query yourself
Remove: Remove the selected class
Remove all: Remove all the classes
Validate or cancel the changes
Images
Transparency management
Apply or cancel the modifications