Scroll Bars, Hand Tool and Zoom Tools

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Scroll Bars, Hand Tool and Zoom Tools

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Icovia offers a variety of tools that you can use in the work area to navigate around the floor plan. You can use

The scroll bars to pan up, down, left and right within the work area.
The hand tool image6 to drag the floor plan.
The zoom tools image7 to zoom in and zoom out of the floor plan.

Scroll bars:

The scroll bars are located to the right and the bottom of the work area. You can use the scroll bars to pan up, down, left and right within the work area.  The scroll bars are useful when the floor plan is has several sections and you want to see each section of the floor plan in detail. Another options is to use the image8 tool which fits the floor plan to the work area so that you don't need to scroll to view the different sections of the floor plan.

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Hand Tool

The hand tool can be used to drag the floor plan around the work area so that you can add comments or labels in the part of the work area that is not occupied by the floor plan. You can align the floor plan right, left, top or bottom using the hand tool. To drag a plan, select the hand tool image6 from the tool bar.

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Click anywhere on the plan and drag it to the left or the right holding the left button of the mouse down to move floor plan to the section of the work area that you want.

Zoom In/Zoom Out tools

The Zoom In and Zoom out tools enable you to zoom in and out of the floor plan. They allow you to pan the floor plan till you reach a zoom in or zoom out view according to your preferences. You can also use the zoom % field at the bottom of the work area on the left to specify how much you want to zoom in or zoom out.

1.Zooming In: Click on the image9 tool in the toolbar and then click anywhere on the floor plan to zoom into the floor plan. Your cursor takes on the shape of the zoom in tool to indicate that the zoom in tool has been selected. Click again if you want to zoom in more. You can keep clicking on the floor plan with the zoom in tool until you zoom in to the level you want. You can also select or enter the zoom percentage in zoom % box at the bottom of the screen on the left. Type in or Click on the image11 button to see the zoom percentages available and select how much you want to zoom in or out.

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2.Zooming Out: Click on the image10 icon at in the toolbar and then click anywhere on the tool bar to zoom out of the floor plan. Your cursor takes on the shape of the zoom out tool to indicate that the zoom out tool has been selected. Click again if you want to zoom out further. You can keep clicking on the floor plan with the zoom out tool until you zoom in to the level you want. You can also select or enter the zoom percentage in zoom % box at the bottom of the screen on the left.