The View menu contains commands that control the appearance of the display in the frontmost windows.

The Zoom function allows you to examine the contents of the frontmost view window in detail by enlarging any particular area to fill the screen.

Choosing Shrink will reduce the size of the displayed image in the frontmost view window by a factor of two.

Choosing Pan allows you to move the image around within the frontmost view window.

Choosing Home View will set the image back to its Home View size. Hullspeed starts up with default Home View settings for each of the view windows. However, the Home View may be set at any time by choosing the Set Home View function.

Choosing Set Home View allows you to set the Home View in the frontmost view window.

To set the Home View, use Zoom, Shrink, and Pan to arrange the view as you require, then select Set Home View from the View menu.

Activates the Rotate command, which is a virtual trackball which lets you freely rotate a design in the Perspective view window.

The Colour function allows you to set the colours used in the power/resistance graph or the colours of the contours used to display the Maxsurf design in the view windows.

Hullspeed will display a list of display items that can be modified. These display items are dependent on the frontmost window.

Font allows you to set the size and style of text used in the frontmost window.

Allows you to select which Toolbars are visible, see Toolbars on page 39 for further details.

Makes the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen visible. This Status Bar displays information about the current state of what is being viewed in the window as well as short descriptions of the functions of some commands as your mouse passes over them and indicates the state of some control keys.