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.
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Redraw | REDRAW | Refreshes the screen display in the current viewport. |
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Redraw All | REDRAWALL | Refreshes the screen display in all open viewports. |
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Regenerate | REGEN | Recalculates the screen display in the current viewport. |
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Regenerate All | REGENALL | Recalculates the screen display in all open viewports. |
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Update Fields | UPDATEFIELD | Updates the selected fields. |
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Real Time Pan | RTPAN | Pans the view dynamically. |
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Pan | PAN | Pans the view. |
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Real Time Zoom | RTZOOM | Zooms in/out dynamically. |
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Zoom In | ZOOM + I(*) | Zooms in on the center of the window by a factor of 2. |
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Zoom Out | ZOOM + O(*) | Zooms out from the center of the window by a factor of 1/2. |
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Zoom Extents | ZOOM + E(*) | Displays all the entities in the drawing (referred to as the drawing extents). |
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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. |
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Zoom Previous | ZOOM + P(*) | Restores the displayed view prior to the current one. |
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Zoom All | ZOOM + A(*) | Displays the whole drawing as far as its drawing limits or drawing extents (whichever is the greater of the two). |
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Zoom Left | ZOOM + L(*) | Pick the lower left corner of the next view, then specify the magnification factor or the view height. |
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Zoom Center | ZOOM + C(*) | Pick the center of the next view, then specify the magnification factor or the view height. |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. |
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Real-Time X | RTROTX | Rotates the view dynamically about the screen X-axis. |
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Real-Time Y | RTROTY | Rotates the view dynamically about the screen Y-axis. |
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Real-Time Z | RTROTZ | Rotates the view dynamically about the screen Z-axis. |
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Set View Point | DDVPOINT | Opens the Preset Viewpoints dialog. |
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Plan View | PLAN | Restores the plan view with respect to the WCS, the current UCS or a saved UCS. |
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Define View | DVIEW | Defines parallel and visual perspective views. |
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Save/Restore View | VIEW | Saves and restores named views. |
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Viewports | VPORTS | Manages viewports in model space. |
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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