WMS:Display Menu

The Display menu is one of the standard menus and is available in all of the modules. The commands in the Display menu are used to control how attributes of a TIN, DEM, Feature Objects, etc., are being displayed, to set up a drawing grid, to control how contours are displayed, and to generate shaded images. The following commands are found in the Display Menu

• Display Options
• Contour Options
• Grid Options

• Refresh – When editing the image in the Graphics Window it occasionally becomes necessary to update the display or refresh the screen by redrawing the image. Whenever possible, WMS automatically updates the display. However, in several cases small parts may be obscured by editing procedures, and the display will need to be refreshed by selecting the Refresh command from the Display menu.

NOTE: The process of redrawing can be aborted in many cases by pressing the ESC key.

• Frame Image – After altering the image display using the Zoom or Pan tools, the image can be centered by selecting the Frame Image command in the View menu. This command adjusts the window boundaries so that all currently visible objects just fit in the Graphics Window. It does not affect the viewing angle.

View

• View Angle
• Set Window Bounds
• Plan View – Selecting the Display | View | Plan View menu command, or the Plan View macro File:WMSImage011.png, changes the viewing angles so that the image is displayed such that the user is looking down the z-axis with the x-axis horizontal and the y-axis vertical.
• Front View
• Side View
• Oblique View
• Previous View – Selecting the View | Previous View command of the Display, or the View Previous macro File:WMSImage012.png, restores the Graphics Window viewing parameters to those in place before the last viewing command was issued (rotate, zoom, pan, etc.). A macro for this command appears in the Macro Tool palette.
• Z Magnification

• Open Hydrograph Plot
• Plot Wizard

Related Topics

• File Menu
• Edit Menu