Introduction
This is where you control how a model looks and how you move around it — colors, symbol and text sizing, coordinate entry and snapping, what’s visible on screen, distance and angle measurements, background layers and system logs, and the pan/zoom/plot tools used to navigate and present the GDI Display. None of these commands change a model’s hydraulic data; they change how you see it and work with it.
Module/Application
- Display & Visibility Settings
- Use Case: control what’s visible in the GDI Display and how it looks — default colors, text display, and on/off toggles for symbols and backgrounds.
- Covers: Color and Text Display Settings screens, and toggles for customer/node/pipe symbols, flow arrows, User Graphics/Text, the color legend, crosshairs, and background images.
- Colors, Symbols, Sizes & Tool Palette
- Use Case: reset feature colors back to their saved values, save the model’s current colors as the new default, reset the Tool Palette, or set a uniform display size for User Graphics or Text across the model.
- Covers: Reset/Save Feature Colors, Reset Tool Palette, and the three “Set Size For All Features” commands.
- Coordinates, Projection & Snapping
- Use Case: control how coordinates are entered and displayed, and how the cursor snaps to points, grid intersections, or orthogonal lines while drawing.
- Covers: coordinate unit and display settings, snap toggles, and model coordinate projection.
- Views, Panning, Zooming & Plotting
- Use Case: navigate around the model — pan, zoom, save and restore views, close the GDI Window, or send the image to a printer or plotter.
- Covers: zoom and pan commands, saved views, and plotting the GDI Image.
- Measuring Distances & Angles
- Use Case: measure a real-world distance or angle directly in the GDI Display without building a query or running a solve.
- Covers: the Measure Distance and Measure Angle commands.
- Toggling Layers, Logs & GeoMapping
- Use Case: turn the Change Log, individual DXF background layers, or the GeoMapping functions on or off.
- Covers: Change Log tracking/viewing/clearing, DXF layer identification and visibility, and the GeoMapping on/off toggle.
FAQ
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This subcategory covers how the model looks and how you move around it on screen — colors, symbol and text sizes, the Tool Palette, coordinate and snapping settings, what’s visible or hidden in the GDI Display, distance and angle measurements, layer and log toggles, and panning, zooming, and plotting the GDI image itself.
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Start with Display & Visibility Settings — it controls whether customer symbols, node symbols, pipe symbols, flow arrows, User Graphics, User Text, and background images are turned on or off. If the feature type is visible but hard to spot, Colors, Symbols, Sizes & Tool Palette covers adjusting colors and symbol sizes to make things stand out.
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Views, Panning, Zooming & Plotting is about controlling what part of the model you’re looking at — saving views, zooming in and out, plotting the image. Coordinates, Projection & Snapping is about precision while you work within that view — setting coordinate systems, snapping to features, and measuring along specific axes, which matters more when you’re placing or aligning features than when you’re just navigating the drawing.
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Measuring Distances & Angles covers exactly that — Measure A Distance and Measure An Angle let you click points in the GDI Display and get a real-world measurement back, without needing to calculate it separately.
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Toggling Layers, Logs & GeoMapping covers both. It includes Turn The GeoMapping Functions On Or Off and Turn A DXF Layer Off, along with commands for turning the Change Log on or off and viewing or clearing it.