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View Menu Commands

• Toolbar
  • Toggles display of the Toolbar.
• Status Bar
  • Toggles display of the Status Bar.
• Current Layer Visible
  • Toggles the visibility of the current layer.  This is useful to hide layers, for easier editing or faster redraw.
• Show Full Layer Pathnames
  • Toggles the display is the entire file path for each layer, in the Layers View.  It can be useful to turn this off when your files are nested deeply on your filesystem.
• Zoom In / Out
  • Zooms in/out by about 40%.
• Zoom All
  • Centers your view on the currently loaded terrains (but doesn't yet change the level of Zoom)
• Zoom to Full Res (1:1)
  • If the current terrain is grid data (Elevation or Image), sets the view to match (1 screen pixel per heixel, or 1 screen pixel per image pixel)
• Magnifier
  • Allows you to zoom the view into a specified rectangle.
• Pan
  • Allows you to pan the view by dragging the first mouse button.  You can also drag with the middle mouse button, if you have one, to pan at any time.
• Obtain Distance
  • Click and drag to measure horizontal distance and offset between any two points.
• Area  Tool
  • Allows you to set the area for the Area Tool.
• World Map
  • Toggles the display of a world map (shoreline vectors).  The data is expected to be in a folder called "WorldMap" below the program folder.  VTBuilder will attempt to convert the map to your current projection, which may not produce good results for all projections.
• Show UTM Boundaries
  • If you are using data in a geographic projection, this will toggle the display of the boundaries of the UTM coordinate zones.
• Show minutes and seconds
  • If you are using data in a geographic projection, this will toggle the display of minutes and seconds of latitude-longitude.
• Show Terrain Elevation
  • Turn this off to show each elevation layer as a simple box, which saves a lot of memory and time.
• Artificial Shading
  • Produces much more attractive images, but takes some additional time to process.
• Hide Unknown Areas
  • Area of the elevation layer will be not drawn at all (transparent), rather than shown in red.