The Viewing Menu

Basic Functions > Viewing a Model > 7.2 The Viewing Menu

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7.2 The Viewing Menu

The commands of the Viewing menu control the orientation, sizing, position, and visualization methods of views in viewports.

Menu Conventions

A menu item with ellipses (...) attached to it will call up an additional dialog box in which you enter or select further data.

If a menu item is followed by an expression containing the abbreviation Ctrl, this item can also be accessed by an accelerated keyboard shortcut. For example, to activate the Viewing>Transformations command with the shortcut, press the Ctrl (Control) key and the lower case letter key (t) simultaneously.

The Viewing menu functionalities are described below in the order in which they appear.


Transformations...	Displays graphic icons with which you can pan, rotate, and zoom a view by selected incremental factors. Also provides a Fit View icon to adjust the view of the model to be contained completely inside the boundaries of the viewport.
Fit View	Moves and resizes the current view so that all model entities will fit inside the current viewport window. The view’s rotational orientation will remain the same.
Select Center	Pans a view by moving its center to a cursor picked location.
Select Corners	Zooms in on a cursor-defined rectangular area of the view.
Zoom (% of view)	Specifies a zoom factor, expressed as a percentage of the normal fit view area, for viewing the model.
Angles...	Rotates a view by specific angles about the X, Y, and Z axes of either the global or screen coordinate system.
View From/To...	Rotates a view by moving the view origin or by modifying the location of an observation point.
Scale Factors...	Changes the projected size of a model in the view by using specific scale factors.
Named View Options...	Applies an existing named view in a selected viewport. Creates new named views, and renames or deletes existing named views.
Clipping/ Perspective...	Controls the parameters for clipping and perspective viewing.
Arbitrary Clipping...	Creates, modifies, and deletes user-defined clipping planes. Also enables or disables (posts/unposts) selected clipping planes.