Layout (Workspace Configuration)

The “Layout” tool is designed for flexible customization of the main program window’s appearance (scene). With its help, you can add, remove, move, and scale astrological tables and the chart itself, creating an ideal workspace for your tasks.

The layout settings window can be opened from the main menu: Settings ➔ Layout, or by right-clicking on an empty spot on the scene and selecting the corresponding item, or by clicking the corresponding icon in the toolbar. After that, all scene objects will be outlined with a red border around their perimeter and can be moved with the mouse.

Main Tab

• Overall chart size — adjust the chart size. By clicking , you can place the chart strictly in the center of the scene.
• Dial data — show an area on the scene with data from the active dials. You can also set the font size and family for this area.
• General data — show an area on the scene with information about the current modes and systems. You can also set the font size and family for this area. From the context menu of this area, you can choose what information to display: current configuration, coordinate system, zodiac, house system, etc.
• Photo — when creating events, you can specify a path to an image (for example, a photo of the native), which will be attached to that event. This image can then be displayed on the scene alongside the chart. Images can have different sizes and aspect ratios, but when displayed in the specified area, they will be scaled while preserving the aspect ratio, based on the set dimensions of this area.
• Background image — set a custom image as the scene’s background (in PNG, JPG, BMP formats). The image itself can also be dragged and scaled. This can be useful, for example, for working with the Local Space technique (see below).
  Note: Images are best copied into the Images folder, as by default the program will suggest choosing images from that folder.

Background Image and Local Space

1. You can load a floor plan of your apartment or plot as a background image.
2. Using a special slider, you can scale the loaded plan to the required size. Holding Ctrl will change the integer part of the value.
3. The adjacent option allows you to rotate the image by a specified degree, which is necessary if your drawing is not initially aligned strictly to the cardinal directions (North-South).
4. In this case, it will be necessary to make the background of the chart elements transparent by activating the corresponding option below.
   

Managing Scene Tables

The scene consists of the graphical chart and “Scene Tables” — information blocks (for example, coordinate list, aspect grid, day/hour rulers, etc.) that are arranged around the chart.

• Enabling/disabling tables: To add or remove a table, tick or untick the checkbox next to its name in the “Layout” window.

Note: tables will be displayed on screen only if the global display option is enabled in the main menu (hotkey T).

• Positioning: With the “Layout” window open, you can drag the chart and any tables around the screen by simply holding down the left mouse button. New (just enabled) tables appear in the upper left corner of the screen by default.
• Resizing: Table sizes depend on the font size, which can be adjusted next to the name of a specific table, and on their content.
• Quick table settings: The layout window has useful buttons: one instantly resets (zeroes out) the coordinates of all tables, and another allows you to set a uniform font for all text blocks on the screen in one click.
• Interaction: By hovering the cursor over a table, you will see a tooltip with its name. Double-clicking on many scene tables instantly opens their expanded versions from the main menu.

Thanks to the Tables outside the scene option, tables can be positioned outside the scene. If the option is not active, their position will be automatically adjusted depending on the scene dimensions.

Saving Changes

All layout changes are tied to your current working configuration, so if you want all layout changes to be saved, you need to save the configuration.

Scene Tables

Coordinates

A graphical variant of the parent table. This table can display various astronomical and astrological characteristics corresponding to the positions of objects and cusps of the current dial. From the context menu, you can select which data to show, in what format, whether to include cusps, whether to draw a grid, and set the font color for the 2nd dial data.

30-Degree Scale

A graphical variant of the parent table. This scale can be stretched/compressed horizontally. To do this, hold the CTRL key and drag any edge of the scale with the mouse in the desired direction. From the context menu, you can select which cusps to show.

Essential Dignities

A graphical variant of the parent table. From the context menu, you can select whether to show only the septener and/or only the total.

Day and Hour Rulers

In addition to the rulers of the time of day and the hour, shows the sequential number of the hour ruler in the diurnal or nocturnal sequence. Parent table — Planetary Hours.

Event Sequence

A graphical variant of the parent table. A table with calculations of past and future events (aspects of dynamic objects, aspects to antiscia and lots, planetary ingresses into signs, house changes, phase changes, ecliptic and equator crossings). It is also possible to take latitude parallels into account. From the context menu, you can choose whether to show the time column and set the number of rows for past and future events. Parent table —

Planetary Sects

A graphical variant of the parent table.

Aspect Grid

A graphical variant of the parent table. In addition to aspect symbols, the upper part of the cells indicates their dynamics: A — applying, S — separating, and the lower part of the cells shows the residual orb value rounded to the nearest degree.
From the context menu, you can specify that only aspect symbols be shown. This table can also display declination or latitude parallels, but only when the “Symbols only” option is active.

Aspect List

Display of information on aspects (antiscia and parallels) as a list. If a red line is shown at the bottom of the table, it indicates that there are calculated data that did not fit in the table. In this case, from the context menu you can increase the number of displayed rows. Clicking on the selected row in the table will open a window with the dynamics of that aspect. Context menu:

• information on how many rows have been calculated and how many are shown.
• Sorting block — the ability to select sorting by various parameters.
• Declination parallels.
• Latitude parallels.
• Altitude parallels.
• Antiscia.
• Magi Astrology block — various filters specific to this astrological School.
• Maximum number of rows — the table will be limited to the specified number of calculated rows.

You can, for example, use both sorting options — “Sort by orb” and “Applying aspects first”, which allows you to sort the aspect list by orb while displaying applying aspects separately from separating ones. Tooltips for rows are also implemented. This is useful, for example, when stars are involved in aspects.

Nearest Stations

Display of information on the nearest object turnarounds. From the context menu, you can select whether the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) will participate in the calculations. Parent table — Phases Relative to the Sun.