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will affect what can be seen in the view if Tools> Reference Floors> Up One
Clip to Sides is checked. See “Camera Floor or Down One Floor . Note that
Panel” on page 1082.
this may affect what is seen in the view as
• D r a g t h e Move Clip Plane handle to well as its display in floor plan view. See “In
move the camera and its clip plane paral- Floor Plan View” on page 1057.
lel to its line of sight.
The position and movement of a camera is
• If a stepped cutting plane is created, addi- affected by its location within the model.
tional edit handles are available. See When the camera is outside a building, its
“Stepped Cutting Planes” on page 1054. height is relative to the terrain and follows
Multiple camera symbols can be selected; the terrain as it is moved. When inside a
however, their editing options are limited to building, the camera height is relative to the
being moved, rotated, and deleted. You can floor of the room it is drawn in.
also create revision clouds around group- Which floor an active camera is on
selected camera symbols. determines which floor is affected when any
floor-specific actions are done. For example,
Using the Contextual Menu if a camera is on Floor 2 and changes are
made to the Floor Default settings while in
In a 3D view, right-click in an empty space in
which the backdrop or background color that view, Floor 2 will be affected.
displays to access the contextual menu. See If the camera is on an upper floor and you
“Contextual Menus” on page 39. move the camera outside of the building, the
camera remains at the same height relative to
the floor it was created on.

Zooming

The Zoom Tools are available in all
3D views. See “Zoom Tools” on page
160.

• In Vector Views, the options are a selec- Selecting Window> Zoom In , Zoom
tion of commonly used commands from Out or Fill Window does not change
the File, Edit, Tools and Window menus. the camera’s location or field of view.
• In the other Rendering Techniques, the Instead, the extents of the view are expanded
options are a selection of tools and tog- or cropped.
gles specific to the current view. If you wish, you can instead set the

Up One Floor/Down One Floor Zoom tools to change the Field of View
when used in a 3D view. See “Render Panel”
You can move a camera to a different floor. on page 134.
While the camera view is active, select

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