Quick Reference - Editing Your Map

This is a quick overview of editing the map. Also see Arranging the Map.

Note:

 

To make changes to the map:

  • Press Tab, or
  • Right-click in the map and choose Edit Map. or
  • Click on the lock in the upper left-hand corner to unlock the map for editing.
  • With a map editable, drag items from another map's List View window to copy them to the new map.

To move an object on a map:

  • Select and drag it.

To change the shape or label characteristics of an object:

  • Select the node and choose the appropriate command from the Format menu.

To resize a wire-shaped network:

  • Click and drag the end points.

To select a node and its adjacent nodes:

  • Alt-click on an object. Continuing to Alt-click continues to select adjacent items.

To select the devices at each end of a link:

  • Alt-click on the link.

To re-center the map:

  • Control-click the background of the map. The point you click is centered in the map window.

To scroll the contents of the map:

  • Control-drag the background of the map. The window scrolls the map contents within the map window.
  • Press Alt+[arrow key] (or Option+[arrow key], Mac) scrolls the map in the direction of the arrow.
 

To zoom in or out:

  • Ctr+Alt+drag (Ctrl+Option+drag on Mac) to select an area of the map to zoom into.
  • Ctrl+scrollwheel (Cmd+scrollwheel on Mac) to zoom in or out.

Summary of selection tricks:

 
  • To select multiple items - Shift-click.
  • To select adjacent items - Alt-click. Alt-click again to select the items adjacent to those items.
  • To select all routers, networks or various other groups of items - From the Edit menu, choose the appropriate command from the Select Other sub-menu.