Eyeon:Manual/Fusion 6/Scaling and Panning the Interface

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Contents 1 Panning 2 Scaling 3 Layout

This chapter explains how to adjust the position and scale of the main panels in the Fusion interface. The methods describe here generally apply to all parts of Fusion.

The various panels may also provide additional methods for panning and scaling. These will be described in more detail in the chapter dedicated to that panel. Examples of this include the Flow's Navigator window and the Spline Editor's axis labels.

Panning

To pan or reposition the display of any part of the Fusion interface hold the middle mouse button down and drag in the desired direction. The artist can also click-drag on the scroll bars that appear on the right and left sides of each interface elemnt when off screen elements are present.

Scaling

To smoothly adjust the scale of a panel place the mouse pointer over that interface panel and hold the left and middle mouse buttons down while dragging the pointer. Moving the pointer to the left will zoom out and moving to the right will zoom in.

To scale panel in steps place the mouse pointer over the interface and hold down the middle mouse button. While holding down the middle mouse button, click on the left mouse button to increase the scale, or the right mouse button to decrease the scale.

The + and - keys on the numeric keypad can also be used to scale the interface panels.

Layout

The size of each interface panel can be set using preset configurations or they can be adjusted manually with the mouse. The display views and work panels are complementary; the more space used to display the work panel, the less space available to show the display views.

To resize a panel manually left click and drag anywhere along the raised border surrounding the edges of the panel.

The layout toolbar provides four preset panel layouts. In a default installation the toolbar is found beneath the menus at the top left of the window.

The top of the tool controls area can be aligned to the bottom of the display view or to the top of the screen. To toggle between these modes, click on the small arrow button in the top left corner of the tool controls. The display views will adjust their width to compensate automatically.

The F4 keyboard shortcut will collapse all interface panels except the one under the mouse pointer, allowing it to take over almost the entire screen. The F4 key is a toggle, selecting it again restores the previous layout.