Schematic View Menus

Connect—Activates the connect tool. The connect tool in Schematic View can be used to create any relationship or constraint, are can be used to assign modifiers.

Unlink Selected—Disconnects the selected entities.

Delete—Removes entities from Schematic View and from the scene. Disconnects selected relationships.

Assign Controller—Lets you assign controllers to transform nodes. Only available when controller entities are selected. Opens the standard assign controller dialog.

Wire Parameters—Lets you wire parameters using Schematic View. This is active only when entities are selected. This launches the standard Wire Parameters dialog.

Object Properties—Displays the Object Properties dialog for the selected nodes. Has no effect when no node is selected.

Select Tool—Activates the Select tool when in Always Arrange mode and Select and Move tool when not.

Select All—Selects all entities in the current Schematic View.

Select None—Deselects all entities in the current Schematic View.

Select Invert—Deselects selected entities and selects unselected entities in the current Schematic View.

Select Children—Selects all children of currently selected entities.

Deselect Children—Deselects children of all selected entities. Parent and child must be selected for child to become unselected.

Select to Scene—Selects in viewport all nodes that are selected in Schematic View.

Select from Scene—Selects in Schematic View all nodes that are selected in viewport.

Sync Selection—When on, selecting objects in Schematic View also selects them in the viewport, and vice-versa.

See Schematic View List Views.

Align—Lets you define the following alignment options for selected entities in the Schematic View window:

Arrange Children—Arranges the display of children based on set arrangement rules (align options) below the selected parent.

Arrange Selected—Arranges the display of children based on set arrangement rules (align options) below the selected parent.

Free Selected—Frees all selected entities from arrangement rules, tags them with a hole icon on their left end and leaves them in place. Use this to freely arrange selected objects.

Free All—Frees all entities from arrangement rules, tags them with a hole icon on their left end and leaves them in place. Use this to freely arrange all objects.

Shrink Selected—Hides all selected entities’ boxes, keeping arrangement and relationships visible.

UnShrink Selected—Makes all selected shrunk entities visible.

UnShrink All—Makes all shrunk entities visible.

Toggle Shrink—When on, shrinking entities works normally. When off, shrunk entities are fully visible, but not unshrunk. Default=on.

Always Arrange—Causes Schematic View always to arrange all entities based on the chosen arrangement preference. Displays a pop-up warning before doing so. Choosing this activates the toolbar button.

Hierarchy Mode—Sets Schematic View to display entities as a hierarchy instead of reference graph. Children appear indented below the parent. Switching between Hierarchy and Reference mode is nondestructive.

Reference Mode—Sets Schematic View to display entities as a reference graph instead of hierarchy. Switching between Hierarchy and Reference mode is nondestructive.

Move Children—Sets Schematic View to move all children of parent being moved. When this mode is on, the toolbar button is activated.

Preferences—Opens the Schematic View Preferences Dialog, which lets you control what displays in the window by filtering for categories and setting display options.

Display Floater—Displays or hides the Display Floater which controls what is displayed in the Schematic View window.

Hide Selected—Performs the action of hiding whatever is selected in the Schematic View window.

Unhide All—Reveals any hidden items.

Expand Selected—Displays all child entities of selected entity.

Collapse Selected—Hides all children of selected entity, leaving the selected entity visible.

Pan—Activates the Pan tool, which lets you move horizontally and vertically in the window by dragging the mouse.

Pan to Selected—Centers selected entities in the window. If no entity is selected, centers all entities in the window.

Zoom—Activates the zoom tool. Lets you move closer to or further from the Schematic display by dragging the mouse.

Zoom Region—Lets you zoom to a specific area by dragging a rectangle in the window.

Zoom Extents—Zooms the window so all the nodes in the Schematic View are visible.

Zoom Extents Selected —Zooms the window so that all selected nodes are visible in the display.

Show Grid—Displays a grid in the background of the Schematic View window. Default=on.

Show Background—Displays an image in the background of the Schematic View window. Set the image via Preferences.

Refresh View—Redraws the contents of the Schematic View window with all changes made to it or with changes made in the scene.