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.

Manage the current workspace.

• Open all resources of an Orbit Composite Resources as new Workspace.
• Save the current Workspace Dataset List as new Orbit Composite Resource.

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

Export the current Map view :

• Open Map 2D Print Layout
  Get to the layout view to prepare a Map to print, see Map Print Layout.
• Print…
  Start the print Job
• Export view as image file
• Copy view to clipboard

Close Orbit and release the registered License Lease.
The application window close button (right upper corner) closes Orbit correctly as well.

Open the preferences window, see Preferences.

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

Opens the 3D Annotations.

Drop-down menu to get access to standard Map 2D & 3D and Additional Tools.

Drop-down menu to get access to product specific extensions.

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

License Manager
Opens the License Manager Window to review License status and update Activation Key if required.

About
Opens the About Window to review or get access to :

• Installed product version and build date.
• Runtime environment information : Java version, Operating System and Maximum Memory usage¹⁾.
• Desktop log file, see Orbit Desktop Log file.

Detach or maximize this panel using the according buttons in the right upper corner of the panel.