Navigation Toolbar

To hide or show this toolbar:

  • Activate the Setup ribbon and toggle the view of the Navigation toolbar using Show >> Toolbars >> Navigation Bar

By default, Studio Mapper displays a docked toolbar at the left border of your application.

This toolbar, designed for easy use on touch devices, contains commonly-used map view tools to make it easier to see what you're doing, both at the face and back at the office.

Activate screen panning mode.
Activate zoom mode.
Activate view spin mode.
Zoom in a bit.
Zoom to a defined rectangular area.
Reverse the current view plane.
Show or hide the interactive face plane editor.
Toggle the view controller HUD.
Create a new section by defining a single point.
Create a new section by defining two points.
Fully define a section by defining three points.
Snap the section plane to any data point using right-click (or tap-and-hold).
Swap between isometric and perspective viewing modes.
Align the view with the current map face.
Enable 'look at' mode to pick a point on the map to focus on.
Lock the current view direction to avoid accidentally adjusting it.
Make the current section width wider.
Make the current section width narrower.
Disable all data clipping to show all the data that is loaded (on all map faces)
Clip all data in front of the current section.
Clip all data behind the current section.
Clip all data outside of the current section corridor.

To change the position of the Navigation toolbar:

You can move your toolbar to any position you like, and it can be docked or free-floating. Modifying the position of the toolbar can be achieved with the following general procedure:

  1. If the toolbar is docked, click, tap or touch and hold the 'grab bar' - this is the dotted line shown either on the left of the toolbar (if docked horizontally) or at the top (if docked vertically):


    You may need to hover over the bar for a short duration to 'pick it up'.
  2. Drag the toolbar to a new position. If you hover over the edges of the application, you can dock the toolbar in a fixed position, otherwise you can leave it floating.
  3. The position of the toolbar is remembered so that it is reinstated between application sessions. The layout of your user interface is common to all Studio Mapper projects (although other Datamine applications support their own layouts).

If you don't want to display the toolbar (or you want to display it because it is hidden), the Setup ribbon's Show menu contains the Navigation bar toggle.

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