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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