Main Toolbar

This pages gives an overview of all main toolbar functions.

Open, save and manage your workspaces.
The workspace menu is different for Orbit desktop standalone and Orbit desktop clients. Below the documentation for Orbit desktop standalone.

Workspace
Manage your current workspace

Composite Resource
Open all resources grouped by an Orbit Composite Resources (*.ocr) as new workspace or save your current workspace dataset list as an OCR.

Export
Print to paper, export to image file or copy to clipboard of the current map view, as is.

Exit
Close Orbit and release your current license use. The application is closed correctly as well using window application close button from the right upper corner.

Open the Object Inspector, see Object Inspector.

Open the preferences window, see Preferences.

Save the spatial and attribute component of all edited datasets. The legend (layout) component is not saved by this functions.

Opens the print dialogue of your operating system's default printer to print the current map view as is.
If you would like to customize your print use the Layout view.

When starting a print job, Orbit will generate a map view as specified by your printer settings. This may result in large dataset request and large print file to be sent. Make sure your hardware and network is capable to handle the print job, see Printing conditions.

Printer manufactures may advise on the hardware configurations on how to optimize a print job. Orbit will behave accordingly.

Opens the Map 2D Measure Toolbar or the Map 3D Measure Window according your current Map view.

Activate the Select function to select vector objects or point cloud data on Map 2D or 3D, see Select Objects on Map.

Search objects based on a single attribute query in all visible layers, see Find Objects.

Opens the Tools Sidebar according your current Map View 2D or 3D.

Find any supported resource and add it to the current workspace, see Resource Library.

• “Orbit GeoSpatial Technologies…” : Brings you to the Orbit GT Website.
• “Online Knowledge Base…” : Brings you to the online Orbit GT Knowledge Base.

• “License Manager…” : Opens the Orbit License Manager Window to manage your Orbit license, see License Manager Window.
• “Master License Agreement…” : Opens the Orbit MLA document.

• “About… ” : Opens the Orbit About window to review the installed product, version and system parameters and to access your Orbit session Log file.