Using View Controls
View controls are used to manipulate a view, the portion of the design displayed in a view window. The most commonly used view controls can be selected in the View Control Bar docked to the top of each view window .
Some of the most useful view controls include the following:
- The Update View view control is provided to redraw the display when an operation leaves a view with an incomplete display.
- Window Area , which is used to define a smaller area to display in the selected view, or another.
- Fit View , which is used to fit the entire model in a view (for the "big picture" or to get your bearings).
- Rotate View , which is used to rotate a view.
- View Previous , which is used like an Undo function to negate previous viewing operations, as many as eight per view.
View Controls and Workflow
View controls operate much like tools; many even have "tool" settings.
The interaction between view controls and tools results in an intuitive, comfortable workflow:
Locating and Selecting View Controls
View controls are located as follows:
- By default, the view control bar, which contains the most commonly used view controls, is docked by default to the top of each view window.
- The Tools ribbon group in the Home tab of the ribbon.
- The Main toolbox, which contains the most commonly used view controls, is docked by default to the top of the application window.
Note: The operation of the selected view control depends on the manner in which it is selected.
- If you select a view control from a particular view's view control bar, you also are selecting that view as the one on which to operate.
- If you select a view control from a toolbox, the tool will apply to the active view, which is the one with the highlighted title bar. You can make a view the active view by entering a data point within it, clicking its title bar, starting a tool from the view's control bar, or right-clicking within it.
See the view control procedures in View Control Bar.