VIEW command

Opens the Drawing explorer dialog box with Views selected.

BricsCAD Lite; BricsCAD Pro; BricsCAD Mechanical; BricsCAD BIM

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Alias: DDVIEW, EXPVIEWS, V

Description

Opens the Drawing explorer dialog box with Views section selected to view and modify views in the current drawing.

Options within the command

General
Name
Sets the name of the current view.
UCS
Assigns a UCS. When the drawing contains no saved UCS’s, the droplist shows <None>. See the UCS and EXPUCS commands.
Background
Sets the background for the view. See the BACKGROUND command.
Clip Display
Assigns a clip display.
Layer Snapshot

Toggles whether to assigned the current on and off settings of layers to the view.

  • Yes: assigns the current visual state of layers, so that the next time you make this view current, the layers turn themselves on or off.
  • No: does not assigns the current visual state of layers, so that the next time you make this view current, the layers do not turn themselves on or off.
Visual Style
Sets the visual style. See the VISUALSTYLES command.
View
Camera
Specifies the camera point of the view in x,y,z coordinates in visual perspective mode.
Target
Specifies the target point of the view in x,y,z coordinates in visual perspective mode.
Perspective

Toggles perspective view:

  • On: view is displayed in visual perspective mode
  • Off: view displays in parallel perspective mode

A camera glyph is displayed in the drawing for perspective views (see the CAMERA command).

Lens Length
Sets the lens length of the camera.
Roll Angle
Rotates the camera around the view axis.
Width
Specifies the width of the view in current units.
Height
Specifies the height of the view in current units.
Clipping
Front Plane
Sets the distance between the target point and the front clipping plane.
Back Plane
Sets the distance between the target point and the back clipping plane.
Clipping
Toggles the clipping planes, which remove from any entities that are outside the planes.

Context Menu Options

New
Creates new named views.
Delete
Erases the named view from the drawing without warning.
Rename
Renames the view. 
Select All
Selects all view definitions. 
Invert selection 
Deselects the current selection and vice versa. 
Set current
Sets the selected view as current.