Mouse Controls in sketch window
| Left mouse button | Start sketching a path.
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| CONTROL left mouse button | Lock onto node at start or end of sketching a path.
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| SHIFT left mouse button | End sketching a path.
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| CONTROL+SHIFT left mouse button | Start or End sketching a path on a grid intersection.
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| Middle mouse button drag | Dynamic rotate view [disabled by default].
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| CONTROL middle mouse button drag | Dynamic scale view.
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| SHIFT middle mouse button drag | Dynamic translate view.
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| Right mouse mutton | Select a path.
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| CONTROL right mouse button | Addtionally select a path that runs on from selected paths.
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| CONTROL+SHIFT right mouse button | Select a symbol.
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Left hand panel of sketch window
| Shift Picture | Move sketch view according to selected 2 or 3 point path.
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| Shift Background | Move background image according to selected 2 or 3 point path.
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| [text line] | File name of background image.
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| [Drop-down box] | Drawing type of selected path.
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| [W E P C D I F] [S] | Drawing type of selected path with modal button "S" for splined.
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| [text line] | The text displayed on selected path, unless it is centreline type.
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| paths/ areas/ symbols/ | Index of selected component of sketch.
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| Stroke > > | Change of base stroke width in all sketches.
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| Deselect | Select nothing.
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| Delete | Delete selected path or symbol.
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| Back | Delete last node of current drawing path.
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| Fuse | Warp paths connecting to first node of selected 2 point path to second node.
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| Update SAreas | Calculate areas from paths according to their node connections.
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| V Group Area | Display total area in which a selected symbol is inside.
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| V Down Sketch | Does nothing.
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| V Down SketchU | Super-impose sketch selected in main window onto the sketch window, if compatible.
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Menu bar of sketch window
| File | Import Centreline | Calculate and copy in centreline paths of the survey the sketch belongs to.
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| File | Import Sketch | Warp and copy the sketch selected in main window into the sketch in the sketch window.
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| File | Print | Print sketch drawing to fit paper size [successful experimental feature].
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| File | HPGL thick | Output plotter instructions for the walls to the command line [experimental feature].
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| File | HPGL thin | Output plotter instructions for the details to the command line [experimental feature].
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| File | Close | Close sketch window.
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| View | Maximize | Maximize the view of the paths.
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| View | Centre | Centralize the view of the the paths.
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| View | Upright | Reset the rotational component of the view to zero.
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| View | Scale Down | Zoom out.
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| View | Scale Up | Zoom in.
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| View | Redraw | Refresh sceen in standard drawing mode.
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| Display | [] Centreline | Enable draw centreline type paths.
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| Display | [] StationNames | Enable draw centreline station names.
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| Display | [] XSections | Does nothing.
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| Display | [] Tubes | Does nothing.
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| Display | [] Axes | Does nothing.
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| Display | [] Depth Colours | Does nothing.
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| Display | [] Show Nodes | Enable draw square boxes around path end nodes.
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| Display | [] Show Background | Enable draw background image.
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| Display | [] Show Grid | Enable draw metre grid.
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| Motion | [] Track Lines | Enable dragged line to track black pixels in background image [successful experimental feature].
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| Motion | [] Tablet Mouse | Change mouse controls to make effective use of graphics tablet [experimental feature].
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| Motion | [] Enable Rotate | Enable dynamic rotation of view with middle mouse button drag.
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| Motion | [] Shear Warp | Change warping function used by the "Fuse" function.
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| Action | Detail Render | Redraw screen without colours, without improper symbols, and with correctly drawn pitch boundaries.
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| Action | Update SAreas | Calculate areas from paths according to their node connections [same as "Update SAreas" button].
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| Action | Update Symbols Lay | Calculate group areas in which the symbols belong, and fit random symbols correctly.
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| Action | Deselect | Select nothing [same as "Deselect" button].
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| Action | Delete | Delete selected path or symbol [same as "Delete" button].
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| Action | Fuse | Warp paths connecting to first node of selected 2 point path to second node [same as "Fuse" button].
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| Action | Back | Delete last node of current drawing path [same as "Back" button].
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| Action | Reflect | Reverse orientation of selected path.
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| Action | Set As Axis | Set selected path as axis of symbol that is being sketched [the sketches under "gsymbols"].
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| Action | Delete All Symbols | Delete all symbols in current sketch.
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Menu bar of main window
| File | New | Erase all.
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| File | Open XML dir ... | Select and recursively open directories containing Tunnel XML files.
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| File | Open XML svx ... | Select and open a Survex compatible ".svx" file.
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| File | Refresh | Refresh view of tree and file list components of the window.
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| File | Set XML dir ... | Select and recursively set full file paths for the currently loaded Tunnel data.
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| File | Save XMLDIR | Save all changed files (ones proceded by an asterisk) to their full paths.
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| File | Exit | Close everything.
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| Tunnel | Wireframe | Activate the wireframe view of currently selected survey (in tree view).
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| Tunnel | View Sketch | Activate the sketch window of currently selected sketch.
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| Tunnel | New Empty Sketch | Build and activate a new sketch in currently selected survey.
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| View | Cave Below | Activate the wireframe view of currently selected survey and those it contains.
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| View | Whole Cave | Activate the wireframe view of the whole cave.
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