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The pipeline canvas — zoom, pan, tabs, bookmarks, groups

The node canvas is infinite: scroll to zoom, space-drag to pan, marquee to select many, G to group, B to bookmark a view, and tabs hold several canvases at once.

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The Canvas tab of a project is the node editor, and it behaves like a drawing surface rather than a form.

### Moving around

  • Scroll (or pinch) zooms around the cursor. + / − and 0 on the keyboard zoom in, out and reset.
  • Space + drag, Alt + drag or the middle mouse button pans. The minimap in the corner shows where you are; click it to jump.
  • F fits everything into view.
  • Below about 55% zoom nodes draw as labelled blocks with no ports or settings — that is deliberate level of detail, so a hundred-node graph reads as a shape.

### Selecting and arranging

  • Drag on empty canvas to marquee-select; Shift + click adds to the selection. Ctrl/⌘ + A selects all.
  • Dragging snaps to the grid and to other nodes' edges (a guide line appears). Turn snap off in the toolbar.
  • G groups the selection into a named frame; Shift + G ungroups. Groups are saved with the graph.
  • D duplicates, Delete removes, arrow keys nudge (Shift for a whole grid step).

### Bookmarks and tabs

  • Bookmark a view (name it, or press B) and jump back with 1–9. Bookmarks belong to the saved canvas.
  • Tabs hold several canvases in memory — open a saved one from the list, or start a new tab from a template — and only the one you save reaches the server.

Press ? on the canvas for the shortcut list.

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