Global Mapper Toolbars

This section briefly reviews the menus and commands in order to understand the basic purpose of each.

The toolbars provides quick mouse access to many tools used in Global Mapper. To hide or display the toolbars use the View menu.

Turn on and off the display of toolbars from the View > Toolbars sub-menu. The drop-down at the end of each toolbar provides access to Customization of the toolbars, including adding new buttons and showing text labels.

File

• Open Data Files
• Connect to Online Data
• Save Workspace
• Map Layout Editor
• Configure
• Overlay Control Center
• Overview Map

Navigation

• Zoom (Alt+Z)
• Pan (Alt+G)
• Zoom In
  
• Zoom Out
  
• Restore Last View (Ctrl+Backspace)
• Full View
  

Tools

• Measure Tool (Alt+M)
  
• Feature Info Tool (Alt+P)
  
• Search Vector Data
  

Analysis

• Create Elevation Grid
• Create Contours
• Calculate Cut and Fill Volume (Ctrl+Alt+M)
• Path Profile (Alt+L)
• Create View Shed (Alt+V)
• Create Water Shed
• Combine/ Compare Terrain Layers
• Create Density Grid (Heat Map)
• Create 3D Fly-through

Viewer

• Add/ Remove Map Views
• Rotate Map
  
• Image Swipe
  
• Show 3D View
  
• Link 2D and 3D Views (Ctrl+Shift+3)
• Display Water Level
• Increase Water Level
• Decrease Water Level
• Enable/ Disable Hill Shading
  
• 
  Shader Drop-down Menu
  

Digitizer (Create)

• Create Point/ Text Feature
• Create Line Feature (Vertex Mode)
• Create Line Feature (Trace Mode) (Shift+T)
• Create Area Feature
• Create Rectangle/ Square Area Feature
• Create Circle/ Ellipse Area Feature

Digitizer (Advanced)

• Create Distance/ Bearing/ COGO Line
• Create Range Rings / Ellipses
• Create Regular Grid of Features
• Create Strike-and-Dip Point
• Cut Selected Area(s) From Another Area
• Right Angle Draw Mode (R)
• Ortho Draw Mode

Digitizer (Edit)

• Move Selected Feature(s) (Ctrl+Shift+M)
• Rotate Scale Feature(s)
• Display Area/ Line Vertices (Shift+V)
• Move Selected Vertices
• Insert Vertex
• Combine Line Features
• Split Line At Selected Vertex
• Create Points From Line/ Area Vertices
• Create Lines From Areas
• Create Areas From Lines
• Combine Selected Areas
• Crop To Selected Areas
• Create Buffer Around Selected Features

Selection

• Digitizer Tool (Alt+D)
• Select by Drawing Polygon
• Clear Current Selection

GeoCalc

• Enable GeoCalc Projection Mode
  
• Auto-select GeoCalc Transform
• Launch Geographic Calculator

Favorites

• Favorites Drop-down
• Run Selected Command (Ctrl+Enter)

GPS

• Start Tracking GPS (Ctrl+T)
• Stop Tracking GPS
• Keep GPS\ Video Vessel on screen
• Orient View to GPS \Video Heading
• Mark Waypoint (Ctrl+M)
• Mark Waypoint from Averaged Position
• Mark Waypoint at Offset
  
• Create Line from Track
• Create Area from Track
• Display GPS Info
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LiDAR Toolbars

*requires the LiDAR module

3D Toolbars

Map Layout/ Cartography Toolbars