Where has my map gone? Cosmo 3 view problems.

Hello all. Long time user, first time poster.

I'm using a fully patched version of CC3 with CD3 and Cosmo 3 on a 64 bit Windows 7 Pro machine.

I have created a cosmographer map and was scrolling around a zoomed in view when the mapping area suddenly jumped to the far left margin of the map. It's possible I hit the scrollbar instead of the scroll button. I clicked in the centre of the scroll bar to return to the area I was working in, but the screen went blank - the the buff colour of the background behind the work area. I hit zoom to extents but nothing happened. I have tried scrolling around, zooming in, zooming out, hiding and unhiding sheets and layers - nothing. The map view stays blank.

However, if I choose Open and select the saved file I can see the correct view in the preview, but the screen stays blank when I load it. Likewise I can print the map and preview the map as long as I choose to print everything and not just the current view. It seems like my view has somehow dived away from the actual map, but I can't get it back.

In addition, the crosshairs don't appear on the screen if i move the mouse into the mapping area, and the co-ordinates in the top left show as NAN, NAN.

Any ideas?

G

Comments

  • FIxed it! My ever so clever fiance suggested using the Zoom to text option, which did exactly that and got the view right back where it should have been.

    G.
  • You might have an object stuck way, way out beyond the end of the map. If you did, the zoom-extents command would show everything, including that point, so small that they might not show up.

    What you can do to test this, is make a copy of the map, zoom out until you see everything you want, then do delete>all>not> then select your map. You want to do this with all layers and sheets visible and thawed.

    Steve
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