Once you have located an area or object using the Search dialog box, you can navigate to an adjacent area where the maps are not yet loaded. From here, you can load all the maps that should appear in the drawing area.
To load maps, do one of the following:
• Select Load Maps from the Actions menu.
• Press the M key.
• Click the Load Maps button () on the toolbar.
To unload all maps (not just those in the visible drawing area), do one of the following:
• Select Unload Maps from the Actions menu.
• Press Shift+U.
• Click the Unload Maps button ()on the toolbar.
Note: Unless your system is configured to unload maps with each focus, any loaded maps will continue to be loaded until you explicitly unload maps or you switch mode (that is, from study to real-time or from real-time to study).
If there are more devices displayed than the configured maximum, which is 500,000 in the product configuration, the viewer will unload the maps that have the oldest access time to get the total under the limit.
Navigating in the Viewer
There are a number of ways to navigate (pan and zoom) in the Viewer drawing area:
• Use keyboard shortcuts. See “Navigate Menu” for the available keyboard shortcuts.
• Use the Pan and Zoom Control. You can show or hide the control by selecting or deselecting, respectively, the Navigate menu's Show Pan and Zoom Control check box.
• Pan left, right, up, down, or diagonally in the map using the pan compass.
• Use the Plus (+) and Minus (-) buttons on the zoom slider to zoom in and out. You can also drag the zoom slider toward the + to zoom in or toward the - to zoom out. The scale indicator displays the current zoom scale. The scale is hidden if a schematic view, such as a substation, is selected.
• Navigate using your mouse controls, as described in the next section.