View commands overview

BricsCAD provides various tools and commands to control the display and view orientation of your drawing.

These tools can be found in the View menu, toolbar or ribbon tab.

Icon Tool Name Command Description
Redraw REDRAW Refreshes the screen display in the current viewport.
Redraw All REDRAWALL Refreshes the screen display in all open viewports.
Regenerate REGEN Recalculates the screen display in the current viewport.
Regenerate All REGENALL Recalculates the screen display in all open viewports.
Update Fields UPDATEFIELD Updates the selected fields.
Real Time Pan RTPAN Pans the view dynamically.
Pan PAN Pans the view.
Real Time Zoom RTZOOM Zooms in/out dynamically.
Zoom In ZOOM + I(*) Zooms in on the center of the window by a factor of 2.
Zoom Out ZOOM + O(*) Zooms out from the center of the window by a factor of 1/2.
Zoom Extents ZOOM + E(*) Displays all the entities in the drawing (referred to as the drawing extents).
Zoom Window ZOOM + W(*) You are prompted to pick two corners of a box on the existing view in order to enlarge that area to fill the display.
Zoom Previous ZOOM + P(*) Restores the displayed view prior to the current one.
Zoom All ZOOM + A(*) Displays the whole drawing as far as its drawing limits or drawing extents (whichever is the greater of the two).
Zoom Left ZOOM + L(*) Pick the lower left corner of the next view, then specify the magnification factor or the view height.
Zoom Center ZOOM + C(*) Pick the center of the next view, then specify the magnification factor or the view height.
Zoom Right ZOOM + R(*) Pick the upper right corner of the next view, then specify the magnification factor or the view height.
Look Around RTLOOK Look around in a 3D scene.
Look Up and Down RTUPDOWN Move up / down and left / right in a 3D scene.
Walk RTWALK Walk left / right and forward / backward in a 3D scene.
Real-Time Constrained Sphere RTROT Rotates the view dynamically in 3D.

Moving the mouse horizontally (parallel to the screen x-axis) rotates the view about the world Z-axis.

Moving the mouse vertically (parallel to the screen y-axis) rotates the screen x-axis.

Real-Time Sphere Center RTROTCTR Rotates the view dynamically in 3D about a user-defined center point. Behaves like RTROT.
Real-Time Free Sphere RTROTF Rotates the view dynamically in 3D.

Moving the mouse horizontally (parallel to the screen x-axis) rotates the view about the screen Y-axis.

Moving the mouse vertically (parallel to the screen y-axis) rotates the view about the screen X-axis.

Real-Time X RTROTX Rotates the view dynamically about the screen X-axis.
Real-Time Y RTROTY Rotates the view dynamically about the screen Y-axis.
Real-Time Z RTROTZ Rotates the view dynamically about the screen Z-axis.
Set View Point DDVPOINT Opens the Preset Viewpoints dialog.
Plan View PLAN Restores the plan view with respect to the WCS, the current UCS or a saved UCS.
Define View DVIEW Defines parallel and visual perspective views.
Save/Restore View VIEW Saves and restores named views.
Viewports VPORTS Manages viewports in model space.
Paper Space Views MVIEW Creates viewports in paper space.

(*) <command> <option>: type zoom followed by Enter, then type the command option letter, followed by Enter