Split Active Window into Panes

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CabMasterPro has a feature that allows you to work in Plan View while still being able to see the effect in other views by splitting the screen.

These commands are located on the View tab in the Window group or from the right click menu on a blank area of your drawing.

You can only work in one Active pane at a time, as discussed in the following example. The commands on the View tab will affect only the Active pane.

Commands on the other tabs will affect the whole document i.e. ALL panes. For example, if you insert a cabinet, the cabinet will be added to drawing in every available pane.

Split View

Use the Split command to split the active window into panes. Then...

use the mouse or the keyboard arrows to move the splitter bars.
- another way to split the current window is to just click and drag the splitter bar button.
to leave the splitter bars in their new location, press the mouse button or hit the enter key.
- pressing Escape keeps the splitter bars in their original location.

On the following examples, notice that you can split a window vertically, horizontally, or both.

Example : Split into four (4) panes

Use the View tab > Split command in the Window group.
or
Right click on blank area of your drawing, which will bring up a menu from which you can select the Split command option.
Either option will bring up a cross hair as shown but for these examples DO NOT click your mouse button at this stage.

Click to view Page 1 split into 4 panes

Example : Split into Top/Bottom panes

Move your mouse to the far left hand side of the application window
- This creates only two (2) viewing panes, one pane on top and one pane on the bottom. (Click image to view)
  
  Click to view Page 1 split into 2 panes i.e. top/bottom

Example : Split into Left/Right panes

Move your mouse back to the centre and move it vertically to the top of the application window
- This creates two (2) viewing panes, one pane to the left and one pane to the right. (Click image to view)
  
  Click to view Page 1 split into 2 panes i.e. left/right

The following example shows how you can have a different view in every pane and work on each separately.

Example

This breadcrumbs bar shows that the Active pane is Page 1 which is in Plan View and we are working on cabinet 5 which is a Floor 2 Door (shown bottom left hand corner below). The active pane view is also displayed on the Status Bar.

You can also change the page on the active view and if required, scroll arrows (as shown) are made available.

Click to view another example

Pane Navigation

To make a pane Active to work on, the best way is to simply click on the required pane/drawing page (see above example).

You can also the navigation arrows to switch back to the previous window pane or switch to the next window pane

Close Panes

To close panes you can...

drag the applicable splitter bar either left/right or top/bottom (as required).

Example

This shows a window split in two. If you drag a splitter bar off one end of the window, it will reduce the two panes back to one.

or
double clicking the splitter bar will half the amount of displayed panes. This means that if you have...
- four (4) panes then double clicking will reduce to two (2) panes
- two (2) panes then double clicking will reduce to one (1) pane.

Full Screen

Keyboard Shortcut : F11

This command expands the view to the entire screen, hiding the taskbar, Titlebar and ribbon to give a larger drawing area. This is useful for working with 3D images or on small monitors.

The Keyboard Shortcut F11 can be used to both expand the view to the entire screen and then return to normal view. You can also use the Close Full Screen button to return to normal view.