Select Diagrams to View

To view an imported diagram, either:

• Select a diagram or diagrams in the Schematic Explorer, and select View > Diagrams from the main menu.

If no diagram is selected when the menu option is selected, the Diagram Viewer will open without a diagram being displayed. Open a diagram using the View Diagram dialog as described next, or drag and drop and diagram into the viewer from the Schematic Explorer.

• or select a diagram or diagrams in the Schematic Explorer, right-click, and select the Show Diagram option from the menu that is then displayed.

• or select an element which appears in a diagram in the Schematic Explorer, right-click, and select the Show in Diagram from the menu that is then displayed. The diagram in which the element is located is then displayed.

• or select a diagram or diagrams in the Schematic Explorer, and drag and drop them into the Diagram Viewer.

• or, once the Diagram Viewer is opened, if the diagram was opened recently, select it from the list of recently opened diagrams which can be accessed by selecting the arrow to the right of the View Diagram option on the Diagram Viewer toolbar: .

• or, once the Diagram Viewer is open, use the View Diagram dialog to select and open a diagram:

1. Select the View Diagram option from the Diagram Viewer toolbar: .

2. The View Diagram dialog is then displayed:

   

3. Select the SCGROU containing the diagram in the left-hand window.

4. The Diagram Page window lists all the diagrams in the selected group.

5. To preview a diagram, check the Preview checkbox and select the diagram from the Diagram Page list. The preview is then displayed in the right-hand window.

   

   • To zoom into an area of a diagram preview, hold down the Ctrl key and left-click on one corner of the area and then drag the cursor to the opposite corner of the area.

   • With the cursor over the diagram preview, press Ctrl and click on the diagram preview to zoom in.

   • With the cursor over the diagram preview, press Ctrl+Shift and click on the diagram preview to zoom out.

   • To pan, hold down Alt and the left mouse button and drag the cursor in the required direction.

6. To reduce the number of diagrams listed in the Diagram Page window, or to search for specific diagrams, use the Search For field and Search option. Select the Diagram and By Diagram Name options and enter all or part of a diagram name in the Search For field. Click Search.

   

   The list of diagrams is then restricted to those with names containing the search criteria.

   

   If the search results are to displays pages instead of diagrams, select the Pages option instead of the Diagram option.

   To search the content of diagrams instead of diagram names, select the By Content option instead of the By Diagram Name option.

   The following wildcards may be used in the search criteria:

   • * - matches 0 or more characters

   • + - matches 1 or more characters

   • ? - matches only 1 character

   • # - matches a digit

   • [..] - matches 1 character against the given character set

7. To open a diagram, select it from the list and click OK.