Navigation and zoom

Navigate the SLD canvas with the mouse, keyboard, and the canvas controls to view different areas of your diagram and adjust zoom.

Pan (move viewport)

Move around the canvas without changing component positions:

Drag the canvas background with the left mouse button.
Drag with the middle mouse button (scroll wheel button).
Hold the Space bar and drag.

Zoom in and out

Scroll the mouse wheel over the canvas. The canvas zooms toward your cursor.
Double-click the canvas background to zoom in.
On a touch screen or trackpad, pinch to zoom.

Canvas controls

The control stack in the top-left corner of the canvas has:

Plus and minus buttons: zoom in or out one step.
Fit view button (frame icon): zoom and pan so every component is in view. Use it when you have

lost your place or after placing many components.

Lock button (Freeze diagram): turn component dragging, connecting, and selecting off or on,

so you can pan around without moving anything by accident.

Eye button (Hide All Results / Show All Results): hide or show study results on the

diagram. The arrow below it opens Result Display Options to show or hide each study's results separately.

Viewport memory

While your browser tab stays open, each project remembers its own zoom and pan position. When you return to the project in the same tab, the view restores to where you left it. In a new tab, the project opens with every component in view.

Working with large diagrams

Zoom out for an overview of the system, and zoom in to edit specific components.
Use the fit view button to reorient.
Keep related components close together and use buses to centralize connections.

Keyboard shortcuts - Pan and zoom shortcuts
Selection techniques - Selecting components
Build a diagram - Placing components while building diagrams