View navigation
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Scroll |
Zoom at cursor |
Space + drag |
Pan |
Ctrl + 0 |
Zoom to fit — if something is selected, fits the selection; otherwise fits the whole active cell |
Ctrl + 1 |
Reset zoom to 100% |
View → Go to coordinate… |
Centre the view on a typed absolute (x, y) in the active display unit (zoom unchanged) — e.g. fly to an aligner mark at x = +45 mm, y = 0 to confirm it landed without scroll-hunting across the wafer. |
Alt + ← / Alt + → |
Step backward / forward through the viewport history — every pan and wheel-zoom gesture commits one frame (debounced ~350 ms). Up to 50 frames are kept; jumping back and then taking a new pan/zoom drops the forward stack, just like a browser. |
Bookmarks. View → "Save bookmark 1..5" stores the current viewport in a slot; "Recall bookmark N" jumps back to it. Five slots, persisted for the lifetime of the tab (not saved with the document).
**Maximise canvas (Ctrl+\ or F11).** Hides the right-side properties/layers/cells panel and the toolbar so the canvas takes the full window. The menu bar stays so you can toggle out again. Triggered via View → Maximise canvas (hide panels).
Markers (CSV review workflow)
Import a list of points to step through — useful for reviewing DRC findings, inspector notes, or any "look at these N spots" workflow.
View → Import markers from CSV…— acceptsx,yper line, with optionallabeland an optional 4-column bounding box (minX, minY, maxX, maxY). Coordinates are interpreted in the active display unit (nm/µm/mm— Edit → Settings). Header rows and#comment lines are auto-skipped.F2/Shift+F2— step to the next / previous marker. A plain point marker recenters the viewport without changing zoom, so you keep your working scale across hops. A marker carrying a bounding box — every DRC violation does — zooms to it instead, with surrounding context, because a 200 nm violation framed against a 5 mm die is invisible otherwise.- Each marker draws a numbered crosshair on the canvas; the current marker highlights in the accent colour (orange), the rest amber. Bounding boxes (when present in the CSV) draw as thin rectangles.
Markers are not saved with the .gds — they're a per-session review aid.
The grid scales automatically with zoom. Rulers on top and left show world units (nm). When the grid would be coarser than the target spacing, Glyph subdivides it automatically (a lighter sub-minor grid appears at 1/5 of the minor step).