Loch Help

Table of contents


Basic control

Function Mouse action Key

Zoom & Rotate Left click + drag
Zoom only Left click + drag up/down,
then hold left and click right
Ctrl + Up/Down
Rotate only Left click + drag left/right,
then hold left and click right
Left/Right
Pan Right click + drag Shift + Arrows
Tilt Middle (wheel) click + drag
or wheel rotate
Up/Down

Full screen Left double click F11
Context menu Right click

If continuous rotation is turned on, then rotation mouse movements change the speed or direction of rotation. If rotation is locked, then rotation mouse movements have no effect.


Off screen rendering

Loch is able to render large bitmaps that can be afterwards post processed and printed. Bitmaps can be exported in PDF, PNG or BMP formats. Configuration of export is dove via Rendering setup dialog. You can set following features:

Size and scaling

Screen shotScreen copy will be saved into file with no other changes.
Image widthContents of the screen will have given with.
Image heightContents of the screen will have given height.
ScaleContents of the screen will be exported in given scale.

Image options

Rendering resolutionResolution of the image file used when image size or scale are specified.
Image sizeImage size in pixels and uncompressed bytes calculated from previous settings.
White backgroundForce white background in exported image.

 

Known bugs

Windows specific

Linux specific