Canvas

The design surface: navigation, selection, transform, snapping and ordering.

Zoom, pan, the two canvas modes and the compass.

A graphic scene is a fixed page in the page's frame — 1920 × 1080 unless Settings › Show › Format says otherwise. A control panel is an infinite canvas instead — there is no frame to fit, so it pans freely and zooms further out.

GestureGraphic sceneControl panel
Ctrl / Cmd + scrollZoom about the pointerZoom about the pointer
ScrollScrolls the viewportPans the canvas
Space + dragPanPan
Middle-drag on empty spacePanPan
Right-dragPan (a right click that does not move opens the context menu)Pan
Zoom range50 % – 200 %10 % – 300 %

The zoom control sits bottom-left: − , the current percentage, + . Each click steps by 10 %. Zoom and scroll position are remembered per page and per scene, so reopening a tab puts you back where you were.

The compass

On an infinite canvas a compass needle appears when your widgets are off-screen. It points at the nearest cluster of controls; click it to fly there.

Arrange vs Use

Control panels carry a mode toggle: Arrange to move, resize and wire widgets; Use to operate them — inputs writable, buttons clickable. Graphic scenes are always in Arrange.

A control panel's infinite canvas at 50 %, with the Arrange / Use toggle.
A control panel's infinite canvas at 50 %, with the Arrange / Use toggle.