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3D View Tools

are generated with Color toggled on when
Legacy Compatible Texture Mapping the Vector View Rendering Technique is
should remain unchecked except in leg- used. See “3D View Tools” on page 1047.
acy plans with custom rotated textures.
• Select a check box to generate that view
• W h e n Auto Adjust Default Glass Prop- type in color or uncheck to generate that
erties is checked, the program automati- view type in grayscale.
cally adjusts the behavior of window, • A colored view can always be changed to
door, and electrical fixture glass in Stan- a grayscale and vice versa by choosing
dard rendered and ray trace views in View> Color .
response to interior and exterior lighting
conditions. When this box is unchecked, 4 Specify how the Surface Edge Lines
these adjustments are not made. display for all objects in 3D views.
• Check Always Display Active Cameras • C h e c k Use Layer Settings to display sur-
to turn on the display of active camera face edge lines for objects using the dis-
symbols, even when the “Cameras” layer play settings specified by layer in the
is turned off. When unchecked, active Layer Display Options dialog.
camera symbols obey the layer setting.
If this option is not checked, all edge
2 The Vector View Options only affect lines are drawn black and solid with a
views using the Vector View rendering line weight of 0.
technique. See “Rendered and Vector Views”
on page 1042. • I f Use Layer Settings is checked you can
also check Use Object Settings. All
• Framing Back Clip defines the back clip objects that have special settings speci-
for framing members in cross section fied on the LINE STYLE panel of their
views. Framing must be set to display to specification dialog display using those
see the effects of this value. A zero value settings, overriding the layer settings in
does not back clip at all.
the Layer Display Options dialog.
3 The View Types with Color On
settings control which 3D view types

3D View Tools

Select 3D> Create Camera Views
Orthographic View to display
the Orthographic View Tools or 3D> Create Camera views are perspective views. They
Perspective View to display the Perspective are not scaled and cannot be annotated but
View Tools. are ideal for creating presentation views.
The Full Camera tool creates multi-
floor views of the 3D model. It can be

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