Bird's eye view

Click the mouse wheel button or right-click on the sketch and select Bird’s eye view to produce a reduced-size sketch which enables you to view the whole of an extremely large system. If you click on an object in the reduced sketch, Simcenter Amesim tries to centralize the main sketch on this object. The rectangle shown in the reduced sketch represents the visible part in the main sketch. You can move this rectangle and the main sketch will respond to this.

Figure 389: Bird’s eye view window

If you right-click on the Bird's eye view window, the following contextual menu appears:

Figure 390: Right-click menu for Bird's eye view

You can now:

• modify the view scale,

• refresh the view,

• close the Bird's eye view window.

You can also resize the window to modify the view scale.

You must select the Refresh menu item to refresh the picture of the sketch.

When the Bird’s eye view is open, the cursor displays the hand symbol , and the pan function is enabled until you click the mouse wheel again, or double-click on the sketch.