The plan editor allows you to view and edit plans. It can work in two modes - Edit Mode and Browsing Mode. Browsing Mode allows you to display Projections on the plan whereas the Edit Mode you to edit it. You can switch between the two modes.
Besides the main editor window there is an overview available. The overview always displays the entire plan and a rectangle indicating the region currently visible in the editor. The overview is in the lower left section of the screen, right where the Details View is.
In Edit Mode you can:
To switch to Browsing Mode click with the right mouse button in the plan and select Finish Editing in the context popup menu.
In Browsing Mode you can:
To switch to Edit Mode click with the right mouse button in the plan and select Edit in the context popup menu.
This section introduces you to the various objects that can be found on a plan and explains how they relate to each other.
Plan Elements are the primary objects on a plan. They can either be Local Element or Unique Element. Plan elements are usually composed of several lines and potentially have a number of graphical supplements.
Plan elements are visualized by a blue, dashed outline and handles at the center and at both ends of each line when they are selected in edit mode.
Graphical supplements can be anything: text, symbols, icons, etc. Each graphical supplement belongs to one plan element.
Graphical supplements are visualized with an orange decoration when selected.
Anchorings are used to connect different plan elements When you move a plan element that is connected to another plan element in the Editor, the Editor will try to do re-route connections. Anchorings are not visualized in the Editor per se, but they appear in the interactive feedback.
In the feedback a green dot is used to indicate that an anchoring is about to be created and a red cross is used to indicate that an anchoring has broken.
Syntax errors in plans are highlighted in red. If you wish to get an explanation, activate the context menu on one of the highlighted plan elements and select the entry Problems in the context menu. In the sub-menu you will find a list of problems. Clicking on one will lead you to a dialog with an explanation of the problem.
If you place the mouse cursos over a Unique Element for a short while, a tool tip will appear containing the description of the Unique Element. Please note that the tooltip will not appear, if the Unique Element has no description.
Plans or selected elements of plans can be copied to the clipboard via the [STRG] + 'C' shortcut or via the Copy action in the Edit menu. If no plan element is selected, the copy will contain all selections and the meta information. If the the plan was copied when opened in projection mode, the copy will also contain the highlights. Copies of plans or plan elements can be pasted into any application supporting WMF files. In addition, copies of plan elements can be pasted into any Cockpit plan of the appropriate type.
Instead of copying the selected plan or plan element as vector graphic, you can also copy a PNG image into the clipboard via the [Shift]+'C' shortcut or via the Copy as Image action in the Edit menu.