Key Accelerators Use these accelerators to work quickly. 1. Zooming All zooming is done with either the right mouse button, the mouse wheel, or the Z key. Zooming is available at all times without having to select a zoom tool. Right click zooms out. Right click and drag creates a zoom-in marquee. These two operations are all you need, although the following zooming options can be more efficient in certain situations: Rotating the mouse wheel zooms in and out. The Z key allows zooming in on points that are distant from each other in the drawing. This is the equivalent of panning a huge distance. Zoom in on the first point. Then press the Z key to zoom way out. Move the mouse over the second point and press Z again. It will zoom in the same amount as point1. Repeat for as many points as needed. Use the Z key when you need to accurately draw line segments, for example. 2. Panning Click and drag the mouse wheel to pan. Viewport and Panning The ColorCaps viewport is the raised rectangular space at the center of the screen. The viewport corresponds to the drawing paper. Move the mouse into the viewport area to operate on the drawing. When the viewport is zoomed in, part of the paper area is not visible, and moving the mouse off the viewport to the left or right will display a pan cursor. Right click while the pan cursor is active and you can then drag the paper across the viewport up, down, left, or right as needed. You can pan in the middle of drawing a line segment, for example. When zoomed all the way out, the entire paper is visible and the pan cursor will not appear. 3. Line Travelling You can brush on changes in line width, color, style, looseness and roughness. Do it faster by holding down the Shift key and clicking near the line. The brushing action will automatically travel along that line and only that line. Line travelling is useful when heavying up the outline of a building, for example. 4. Hyper Filling Fill buttons are available for filling areas with color, lighting or masking. You click on an area and the fill proceeds outward until it encounters a line. However, many areas have been filled with a texture of lines. Roof areas, for example, may have shingles indicated with lines. The normal fill will only do one shingle at a time. Hold down the Shift key and click on one of the shingles. The fill will then skip over shingle lines and only stop when it encounters a different line. If line textures are imported with colored CAD lines, the textures need to be a different color than the bounding lines. When areas have been filled with Applique lines in ColorCaps, the Shifted Fill will skip over the applique and stop at the boundary lines. © Copyright 2008 ColorCap Software. All rights reserved.