Viewing the floorplanner, Opening and closing the fly-out palette, Zooming in and out – Achronix ACE Version 5.0 User Manual

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Viewing the Floorplanner

Chapter 4. Tasks

Viewing the Floorplanner

Opening and Closing the Fly-Out Palette

To open and close the Floorplanner view’s fly-out palette of view options:

1. Click on the Fly-out button (

) on the far right side of the

Floorplanner view

to open the fly-out

palette.
Note:

While the fly-out palette is open, it may be resized by clicking and dragging its left border.

2. Once the view options are configured, click on the Fly-in button (

) on the left side of the fly-out

palette to close the fly-out palette.

Zooming In and Out

There are several ways to zoom in and out in the

Floorplanner view

.

Note:

Zoom levels are always in powers of 2, i.e. zoom in is at 200% and zoom out is at
50%. Therefore, it may not be possible to zoom in to perfectly fit a given area.

To zoom in and out with the mouse wheel:

1. Hover the mouse over the point for zoom in or out from in the Floorplanner view.

2. Slide the mouse wheel forward to zoom in or slide the mouse wheel backward to zoom out.

To zoom in and out with key-strokes:

1. Hover the mouse over the center of the area for zoom in or out from in the Floorplanner view.

2. Type either ’Z’ or ’+’ on the keyboard to zoom in or ’z’ or ’-’ to zoom out.

To zoom in and out using the Zoom Tool:

1. Select the Zoom Tool (

) from the view toolbar.

2. To zoom in on an area, click in the upper left corner of the area and drag the mouse to the lower right

until the zoom rectangle encloses the area desired. To zoom out, click the point on the Floorplanner
view to zoom out from and drag the mouse to the upper left until the zoom out label indicates the
desired zoom level.

To zoom in and out with the Placement Tool:

1. Select the Placement Tool (

) from the view toolbar.

2. Hover the mouse over the point to zoom in or out from in the Floorplanner view. Single-click the left

mouse button to zoom in or single-click the right mouse button to zoom out.

To zoom in and out with the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons:

1. Pan to the area to zoom in to or out from in the Floorplanner view.

2. Press the Zoom In button (

) to zoom in or the Zoom Out button (

) to zoom out.

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