sPlan - Tips and hints and The Viewer

Tips and hints 

• You can always go back to the standard (arrow) mode, with the right mouse button (except the zoom mode)
• You can always disable the grid capture temporary with the CTRL-key. So you don't have to switch the grid on or off.
• You can always disable the angle capture while drawing lines or rotating elements temporary with the SHIFT-key.
• If you click on a selected element again, the sizer will change into arrows. Now you can rotate or shear the element with your mouse.
• If you have selected a line or a polygon, you can move single line-segments of the line or the polygon, while you keep the ALT-key pressed.
• If you press the SHIFT-key while rotating or mirroring, the text won't be rotated or mirrored. You may have to align the text new, but therefore the text is always readable.
• You can change the text positions of the identifier, value or contacts of a component directly in your diagram. Just click on the text element and move it (the component should not being selected before). There is no need to call he component editor for this.
• You can zoom with your mouse wheel, if you keep the CTRL-key pressed.
• If you want to create a circle with a dashed line, you can create with the special form function a regular polygon with enough edges (e.g. 32 ore more) as a line. After that, you can doubleclick on the "circle" and define a line style.
• You can easily sort your components in the library per drag&drop. Just click on a component in the library and move it to the new place in the library.
• You can adjust the width of the library with the mouse.
• You can add your own form sheets to your circuit diagram
• You can simply draw magnetic lines out of the rulers. To delete magnetic lines, just draw them back to the ruler.
• If you want to publish your circuit diagrams in the internet, you should export the diagram with a high resolution. After that you can shrink the picture with a graphic application. This will result in a very good quality, because most graphic applications use anti-aliasing to shrink pictures.As an alternative way, you can offer your *.SPL files for download, and refer your visitors to the free viewer application for sPlan.

The Viewer

The Viewer is used to open, view and print sPlan files.

The viewer contains only of one single EXE-file: SPLAN70_VIEWER.EXE

The Viewer is freeware, so everyone can view and print sPlan schematics.

After the installation of sPlan, the Viewer can be found in the installation directory of your sPlan software.

The viewer is also available as a free download from our homepage.