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Creating Overviews

Create Perspective View> Perspective Framing Overview to create a view of the
Floor Overview to create a view of the entire model, displaying only framing and
current floor with the ceiling removed and all the foundation.
floors beneath it visible.
Floor Overviews are an effective tool for
illustrating traffic flow and the relationships
between spaces.

Framing overviews include all floor, wall,
and roof framing as well as foundations.
Unlike other overviews, which use the
Camera View layer set, Framing Overviews
use the 3D Framing Set. See “Layer Sets” on
To see a different floor, select Tools>
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Reference Floors> Up One Floor o r
Framing must be built before generating this
Down One Floor . You can also return to view or the view will be empty.
floor plan view and make another floor
current before generating the Floor Overview Isometric Overviews
If you prefer, you can specify in the Camera An Isometric Overview is a special
Defaults dialog that only the current floor be orthographic view in which the
included in Floor Overviews. See “Camera camera is positioned in such a way that the
Defaults Dialogs” on page 1043. angles between the X, Y, and Z axes are all
120° in that view. See “3D Drafting” on page
Framing Overview 32.
Select 3D> Create Ortho- In addition, Isometric Overviews use
graphic View> Framing scaling that is approximately 1.2 times that
Overview or 3D> Create Perspective used in a normal projection so that lines
View> Perspective Framing Overview to parallel to the X, Y, and Z axes measure their
create a view of the entire model, displaying true length in the 2D projection. As such,
only framing and the foundation. Isometric Overviews can be useful for
technical drawings but may not be well
Select 3D> Create Orthographic View>
Orthographic Framing Overview or 3D> suited for presentation views.
Create Perspective View> Perspective

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