View Tab
Presentation group
Settings | Description |
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View Attributes | Allows you to view attributes of certain drawing aids. |
Apply Display Style | Allows you to set the display mode for any view. |
Apply Display Rule | Used to create and manage display rule sets and display rules for display styles. |
Tools group
Settings | Description |
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Window Area | Allows you to define boundaries within a view window. |
Zoom View (Out) | Allows you to decrease magnified the view. |
Fit View | Allows you to adjust the view. |
Update View | Allows you to update the contents of view window. |
Zoom View (In) |
Allows you to magnify the view. |
Pan View | Allows you to view different parts of design without changing the magnified view. |
Displayset Set | Allows you to display the selected elements and hide other. |
Displayset Add | Allows you to add elements to the displayset. |
Displayset Remove | Allows you to select element from the displayset. |
Displayset Clear | Allows you to clear the elements from displayset. |
Rotate View | Allows you to rotate the view. |
Change view to left view | Allows you to rotate view to left view. |
View Previous | Allows you to undo view control operation. |
Change view to top view | Allows you to change view to top view. |
Change view to front view | Allows you to change view to front view. |
Change view to back view | Allows you to change view to back view. |
Isometric View | Allows you to activate isometric view. |
Right-isometric view | Allows you to activate right isometric view. |
Bottom View | Allows you to activate view to bottom view. |
Walk | Allows you to walk through 3D view of design. |
Fly | Allows you to fly through 3D model. |
Navigate View | Allows you to move camera in a view. |
Change view to right view | Allows you to change view to right view |
View Next | Allows you to redo the last undone view operation. |
Presentation Illustration | Allows you to set display style to illustration: Modeling. |
Presentation Shaded | Allows you to set display style to smooth: Modeling. |
Presentation Wireframe | Allows you to set display style to wireframe. |
Camera group
Settings | Description |
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Lens Type | Allows you to
set perspective view to match an extra wide-angle or normal camera lens.
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Place Camera | Allows you to setup a view camera in 3-point projection mode, by entering data points to define first the camera location, then the camera target location. |
Change View Perspective | Allows you to change the perspective angle of a view. |
Define Camera | Allows you to set up a view for rendering, or to create saved views. |
Focal Distance | Allows you to set the focal distance of the camera; the distance from the eyepoint to the image plane. |
Photomatch | Allows you to match known points in 3D space to corresponding points in a photograph, to determine the camera position, lens angle and target location. |
Named Boundaries group
Settings | Description |
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Named Boundaries | Allows you to
manage named boundaries and named boundary groups.
Place Named Boundary - Allows you to place one or more named boundaries and optionally create saved view(s) and automate dynamic views. Adjust Profile Named Boundary - Allows you to adjust one or more profile named boundaries. |
Named Boundaries |
Allows you to manage named boundaries and named boundary groups. |
Clip group
Settings | Description |
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Clip Volume | Allows you to limit the displayed volume for a view to the region within a clipping element. |
Clip Mask | Allows you to mask the display of elements in a view that are located within the region of a clipping element. |
Show/Hide Clip Volume | Allows you to change the display of a views clip volume elements. |
Clear Clip Volume | Allows you to clear the clip volume from the view. |
Saved Views group
Settings | Description |
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Create Saved View | Allows you to name and describe the view that you want to save. |
Updated Saved View Settings | Allows you to update the selected saved view. |
Apply Saved View | Allows you to apply the saved view to the selected view or all open views. |
Saved View | Allows you to create, update, apply, import, and delete saved views and edit properties of saved views. Saving a view allows you to quickly apply a view with specific attributes. |
Window group
Settings | Description |
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Copy View | Allows you to copy the content of an entire view. |
Cascade | Allows you to stack view windows in numerical order. |
Tile | Allows you to tile view windows between all docked windows and dialogs near the edges of the MicroStation window. |
Arrange | Allows you to resize all view windows. |
View Size | Allows you to control size of the view window. |
View groups
Settings | Description |
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Previous | Allows you to navigate to previously accessed model. |
Next | Allows you to navigate to next model. |
All Visited | Allows you to navigate to all visited models. |
View Toggles | Allows you to click the numbered button to open or close window. |
View Group | Displays the name of the view group as well as the model with which it is associated, and allows you select a different view group. |
Manage View group | Allows you to create, edit, and delete view groups. |