Tiles

Overview
Activating tile tools
Split Tile Horizontally and Split Tile Vertically
Preset tile configurations
Resize tiles
Set Active Tile
Clear Active Tile
Toggle Active Tile
Remove Tile
Single Tile

Overview

• The view window in Modeling or the Drawing Editor can be split into separate tiles. You can re-size the tiles, edit or relocate a view within a tile, and display different views in different tiles.
  

  For example, in Modeling you can create one tile to show a plan view and another tile to show an elevation view. The views can show different members, or they can show the same members from different perspectives.

  

• The current view is initially displayed in a single tile when Modeling or the Drawing Editor opens. That first tile has the focus. When a tile has the focus, navigation and view operations are applied to it, including zooming, panning, and depth check changes. When there are multiple tiles, only one tile can have focus at a time.
• Focus follows the mouse pointer ( ) until a tile has been made active. Navigation and view operations are applied to the tile that you're hovering over, such as zooming in and out with your mouse wheel, even if you haven't clicked inside of it. The tile decoration or border of a tile that has focus is highlighted in the Hover tile color. The tile retains the focus until you hover over another tile. This behavior is convenient if you want to switch rapidly between tiles.
• When a tile is made active using Toggle Active Tile or Set Active Tile, it has the focus at all times. Only one tile can be set active at a time. The active tile is the only tile where navigation and commands can be performed. All other tiles are frozen and you cannot interact with them. The border or tile decoration of an active tile is highlighted in the Active tile color. You cannot change the focus until you clear the active tile using Toggle Active Tile again or Clear Active Tile.

A tile without the mouse focus has no tile decoration highlighting	A focused tile with a highlighted decoration -- dark gray, in this example	An active tile has a highlighted decoration -- blue, in this example

• Tiles have either tile decorations or borders, depending on how you set User and Site Preferences > General > Tile decorations active.

Tile decorations active	Tile decorations active

Activating tile tools

Method 1: Click the tile decoration icons found at the top of a tile.

Toggle/Set active tile

Split Tile Vertically

Split Tile Horizontally

Single Tile

Remove Tile

Method 2: Click the icons found on the Display page > Tiles section.

Preset tile configurations

Split Tile Horizontally

Split Tile Vertically

Remove Tile

Method 3: Right-click to open the context menu and choose Set Active Tile or Clear Active Tile, or choose Tiles > xxx to remove or split tiles. Note that if a tile is active, the context menu is only available in that tile.

  Split Tile Horizontally
  Split Tile Vertically

Split Tile Horizontally divides a focused tile horizontally into two tiles of equal size.

Split Tile Vertically divides the tile vertically.

Both commands create a new tile within the active tile if there is one. If there is no active tile, the tile will be created in the tile that you hover your mouse pointer ( ) over.

   Preset Tile Configurations

Single Tile	Three Tiles, Top
Two Tiles, Vertical	Three Tiles, Bottom
Two Tiles, Horizontal	Four Tiles
Three Tiles, Left	Four Tiles, Left
Three Tiles, Right	Four Tiles, Right

Note: If you've already created your own tile configuration, the preset configuration that you choose will replace it.

Resize tiles

Hover your mouse pointer ( ) over the boundary that separates two tiles. The pointer changes to a double-sided arrow. Drag the boundary to resize the adjacent tiles.

  Set Active Tile

Hover your mouse pointer ( ) over the tile that you want to activate so that it has the focus. The tile decoration or border of a tile you hover is highlighted in the Hover tile color. Click the Set Active Tile icon. The tile decoration or border of the tile you activated is highlighted in the Active tile color.

The active tile is the only tile where navigation and commands can be performed. All other tiles are frozen and you cannot interact with them. Only one tile can be set active at a time. Once activated, it will remain active until you Clear Active Tile or Toggle Active Tile. If no tile is active, focus follows the mouse pointer.

Tip: If another tile is already set to active, you must first deactivate it using Clear Active Tile before using Set Active Tile.

Also see: The Toggle Active Tile decoration can be used to set and clear an active tile with one click.

  Clear Active Tile

Click the Clear Active Tile icon to deactivate the active tile. The tile decoration or border of that tile is no longer highlighted in the Active tile color. Since there is not an active tile, focus follows the mouse pointer.

Also see: The Toggle Active Tile decoration can be used to set and clear an active tile with one click.

  Toggle Active Tile

The Toggle Active Tile decoration performs Set Active Tile and Clear Active Tile simultaneously with a single click. If a tile is already active, you can click Toggle Active Tile in the decoration bar of another tile to make it active and clear the previously active tile at the same time.

Tip: If you are using a keyboard shortcut to set an active tile using Toggle Active Tile, your mouse pointer ( ) must be hovering over the tile so it has the focus.

  Remove Tile
  Remove Tile (decoration)

Individual tiles can be removed. You cannot have less than one tile.

Tip: Single Tile is a much faster alternative to Remove Tile if you have multiple tiles and you want to remove them all.

  Single Tile

The view window can be quickly reverted to show a single tile. You cannot have less than one tile.

Tip: Remove Tile is a better alternative to Single Tile if you have multiple tiles but you don't want to remove them all.