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Chapter 25: Working with the Schematic View
The List Views menu determines what is shown in the Schematic View. Options include All Relationships,
Selected Relationships, All Instances, Selected Instances, Show Occurrences, and All Animated Controllers.
Many of these options are also available in the Display Floater.
The Layout menu includes various options for controlling how the nodes are arranged. The Align submenu
lets you align selected nodes to the Left, Right, Top, Bottom, Center Horizontal, or Center Vertical. You can
also Arrange Children, or Arrange Selected. The Free Selected (Alt+S) and Free All (Alt+F) commands
remove nodes from being auto arranged. With the Layout menu, you can also Shrink Selected, Unshrink
Selected, Unshrink All, and Toggle Shrink (Ctrl+S).
The Options menu lets you select the Always Arrange option and view mode (either Hierarchy or Reference
mode). You can also select the Move Children (Alt+C) option and open the Schematic View Preferences (P)
dialog box.
The Display menu provides access to the Display Floater. The Display Floater (D) command opens the
Display floater, which can be used to select the types of nodes to display. You also can hide and unhide
nodes and expand or collapse the selected node.
The View menu includes commands for selecting the Pan (Ctrl+P), Zoom (Alt+Z), and Zoom Region
(Ctrl+W) tools. You also can access the Zoom Extents (Alt+Ctrl+Z), Zoom Extents Selected (Z), and Pan to
Selected commands. The View menu also includes options to Show/Hide Grid (G), Show/Hide Background,
and Refresh View (Ctrl+U).
Learning the toolbar buttons
You can also select most of these commands from the toolbar. Many of the toolbar buttons are toggle
switches that enable and disable certain viewing modes. The background of these toggle buttons is high-
lighted yellow when selected. You’ll also find some buttons along the bottom of the window. All Schematic
View icon buttons are shown in Table 25.1 and are described in the following sections.
Note

The Schematic View toolbar buttons are permanently docked to the interface and cannot be removed. n

TABLE 25.1
Schematic View Toolbar Buttons

Toolbar Button Name Description
Display Floater Opens the Display Floater, where you can toggle which items are
displayed or hidden.
Select (S) Toggles selection mode on, where nodes can be selected by
clicking.
Connect (C) Enables you to create links between objects in the Schematic View
window; also used to copy modifiers and materials between objects.
Unlink Selected Destroys the link between the selected object and its parent.

Delete Objects Deletes the selected object in both the Schematic View and in the
viewports.
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