- [Instructor] I can find my navigation tools
if I just jump to the view tab
and right under this zoom portion,
I have a number of different navigation tools.
So, I have a zoom window, zoom to fit,
dynamic zoom, and pan as well.
So, I can just click on any of
those to pan or whatever it may be.
That being said, I almost never
use these commands because the navigation commands
are also available to me right within my mouse gestures.
So, for example, if I want to zoom in or out,
I can just use the mouse scroll wheel.
If I want to pan around, I can just
click down that mouse scroll wheel and drag.
And, if I want to zoom to fit,
I can just double click that mouse scroll wheel.
So, I almost never jump into the view tab
for using my navigation tools.
In addition to that, within my view
tab, I have the drawing options.
So, my drawing options will be
very important in any electrical design.
And this is, for example, setting up
my grid spacing, my snap spacing, and so on.
So, very useful just to make sure everything lines up.
So, for example, our circuit breaker lines up to our fuses
and so on, so we can draw these electrical connections.
If my snap is off or my grid spacing is off,
it's going to cause a lot of issues in this wiring.
So, I can just click on any of these,
say, for example, I want to turn off my grid,
I can just click on this guy or F seven
would be the hot key and that's going to turn off my grid.
Click it again to turn it on and so on.
I can also click on perimeters here.
And, that's going to open up my drawing perimeters.
These are essentially the settings
that I can change and customize as needed.
So, I have a whole bunch of object snaps.
So, if i want to snap straight to a specific object
or something like that, I have those options.
My measurement system, if I want imperial or metric.
And, of course, very important, my grid and snap spacing.
So these electrical defaults are
generally about a quarter inch.
But, you can change these values
if you want a smaller grid or a larger grid
or a larger snap or a smaller snap, whatever it might be.
I just want to change this value slightly
and we should see automatically my grid spacing has changed.
Now it's a finer grid.
Generally, again, in your electrical design, you're
going to almost always want your grid and snap turned on.
And you're going to want them almost always to be equal or
some fractions of each other so they'll line up correctly.
One other thing when it comes to the general drawing options
and user interface, I can jump into the tools tab here.
And, within my tools tab, I have this button,
interface configuration and that will pop up
my interface configuration window.
But, I have a number of options here.
Specifically the graphic options tab is very useful in,
again, customizing my graphical interface slightly.
So, for example, if I want to change the color
of my background, I know a lot of electrical designers
would prefer black maybe or whatever color they'd prefer.
So you have a drawing background color here.
And, I can change that color to really whatever I'd like.
And a number of other options
of course that I can change as well.
So, for example, my mouse zoom speed, how quickly
I'm zooming in and out or my mouse zoom direction.
It can get frustrating sometimes if it's zooming in
when you'd like it to be zooming out and so forth.
So, you can switch that direction easily.
Another one that I find very useful
is this crosshair percentage.
So, if we take a look at that,
five percent is what I have by default
but let's say I increase that to a hundred percent,
a lot of people like this as well.
If I just hit apply and ok, so what that does is
it now makes my cursor cross hairs a hundred percent
of my screen, all the way across my screen.
So, this is very useful, especially in the electrical
design here because it can help you to really line up
your objects and everything like that.
So, throughout this course, I'll
mostly be using the five percent default
but again, a lot of people like to throw in that
hundred percent just to help you with lining things up.
And again, I just jump right back into the
interface configuration and I want to change that back
to five percent here and I can hit apply and ok.
And now you see my mouse cursor
has changed back to those smaller cross hairs.