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SurView BASICS:
1. Right-click the mouse button to view more info/choices
2. Viewing and zooming
3. Query different feature types (e.g., point, line, or polygon features)
4. Navigating the menu
5. Selecting element for till geochemistry
6. SurView Help and Tutorial

Viewing/Zooming

Surview is like most Window programs. The user may resize, maximize, or minimize the window. Moving the mouse to an edge of the window will cause the cursor to change into resize mode.

Resizing a window

Tip: In SurView, the map legend window can be resized and the content in the window will adjust to the size of the window. This is useful if you are having a hard time reading the legend text. You can make the legend window bigger and the text will increase proportionally.

Zoom/Pan is a useful feature in SurView if you may want to take a closer inspection in an area that you are interested in. You can zoom/pan by going to SurView menu item called View and then select Zoom/Pan or you can press Ctrl + Z to start zooming.

To zoom into a feature it requires basically 2 steps: 1) define a zoom factor, 2) pan to the area you want to take a closer look at.

Step 1. Define a zoom factor by moving the mouse left or right. Note the smaller the zoom box, the higher the zoom factor. Once you are satisfied with the size of the zoom factor then you can left-click which will take you to Pan mode.

Step 2. Pan into the area by moving the Pan box to where you want to take a closer look. Then right-click to zoom in on the area.

Zoomed result

For more information on using SurView you can refer to the Help menu item or go through the SurView tutorial.

 

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