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Chapter 4: Viewing the Workspace

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The button is highlighted, to indicate that you are in tile mode. To undo the tiling, click the 

Tile

Entries

 button again. You can also enter and exit tile mode by choosing 

View 

→

 Tile 

→

Tile

Workspace

 or pressing 

CTRL+L

. Information on individual transformations is discarded when

you exit tile mode.

The tiles are initially arranged according to the order in which the entries were included in the

Workspace. There are two ways of rearranging the tiles. The first is to exclude an entry and

then include it again. This entry is placed at the end of the grid of tiles. The second is to move

individual tiles. To move tiles, first choose 

Pick Tiles to Move

 from the 

Tile

 button menu or

from the 

Tile

 submenu of the 

View

 menu. Then click on a tile to select it for moving, and click

on the desired new location. As you move the pointer, the location where the selected tile will

go if you click in the current tile is marked by a purple line. The tiles between the initial loca-

tion and the final location are moved to fill the space left by moving the selected tile, and the

selected tile is placed in the new location. When you have finished moving tiles, deselect 

Pick

Tiles to Move

.

Each tile is a mini-Workspace, in which you can perform all the operations that are available

when the Workspace is not tiled. Transformations (rotation, translation, zoom) can be

performed on all tiles simultaneously, or on individual tiles. To perform simultaneous transfor-

mations, select 

Transform All Tiles

 from the 

Tile entries

 button menu (or the 

Tile

 submenu of the

View

 menu). This option is selected by default. If you deselect this option, you can transform

individual tiles. Clicking in a tile selects the tile, which is marked by a thicker border. To trans-

form an individual tile, start the transformation operation when the pointer is in the tile. You

can drag outside the tile to finish the transformation operation, but to start another operation on

the same tile, you must move the pointer back into the tile. 

To reset the view in each tile to the initial view, choose 

Reset All Tiles

 from the 

Tile

 button

menu (or 

View 

→

 Tile 

→

 Reset All Tiles

). To reset the view in an individual tile, right-click in

the tile and choose Reset Tile from the shortcut menu.

To apply the view or zoom for an individual tile to all tiles, right-click in the tile and choose

Apply View to All Tiles

 or 

Apply Zoom to All Tiles

 from the shortcut menu.

When the Workspace is tiled, you can save an image that shows the tiled Workspace.

Some actions do not behave the same in tile mode as out of tile mode.

• Adding atoms in Draw or Place mode by clicking in an empty part of the Workspace adds

the atoms to the scratch entry. If the scratch entry is not in the tile you clicked in, the

atoms will not appear in that tile, but rather in the scratch entry tile. If you draw or place

atoms by clicking first on an existing atom, the behavior is normal: atoms are added to the

structure that you clicked on.

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• Saving a view only saves the current global transformation, and does not preserve

changes made in individual tiles. Consequently, restoring a view applies the same view to

each tile, and does not preserve changes made in individual tiles.

4.5

Using the Full Screen

If you want to make use of the full size of your monitor to view the Workspace, you can enter

full-screen mode, by choosing 

Workspace 

→

 Full Screen

, or pressing 

CTRL+=

. In this mode,

the only components of the main window that are visible by default are the Workspace, the

menu bar, and the Auto-Help bar. You can use the 

Window

 menu to display the toolbars, open

hidden panels, and perform other window-related actions.

To exit full-screen mode, press 

ESC

. 

Another way to make use of your monitor is to simply maximize the main window instead of

entering full screen mode. The main window components that you have displayed occupy

some space, but you can undisplay many of these components if you want the extra space.

4.6

Clipping

How much you can see of the structures that are in the Workspace depends on whether you

have zoomed in or out, and also on where the structure is “clipped”. Clipping is used to limit

the parts of a structure that are displayed in the Workspace, by defining clipping planes perpen-

dicular to the z axis (or parallel to the screen) and displaying only the parts of the graphical

image that are between these planes. Anything that is in front of or behind these planes is not

displayed. Clipping is useful when working with large structures containing many atoms, in

which it can be hard to see certain atoms and even harder to pick those atoms.

The part of the structure that is displayed in the Workspace is indicated in the clipping planes

window. This window is located in the lower-right corner of the Workspace. By default, it is

not displayed. You can display it by choosing 

Window 

→

 Clipping Planes

.

The display in the clipping planes window consists of the following features:

• Top view of structures: A representation of the structures in the Workspace, drawn in

the wire frame representation. The view of the structures is from the top, that is, from the

positive y direction looking down to the negative y direction. The back of the structure is

in the upper part of this window while the front is in the lower part of this window.

Zooming in and out on the structures in the top view is controlled by a preference. If you

select 

Zoom clipping planes with Workspace

 under 

Workspace 

→

 Clipping Planes

 in the

Preferences

 panel (see 

Section 14.4.8 on page 351

), the top view zooms in and out as you

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