The view volume (sometimes called the display volume) is the volume of the design cube that is displayed in a 3D view. In most cases, only a part of the design cube is displayed in a view.

Any elements, or parts of elements, not contained in the view volume are not displayed in the view. Unless a clip volume has been applied to a view, the view volume is bounded by the window area, and its Display Depth.

At any time, in a view, you can toggle on/off the view display restrictions of the front and/or back clipping planes. Similarly, you can toggle the clip volume, if one has been applied. Three settings in the View Attributes dialog let you do this:

• Clip Back — if on, a back clipping plane is active in a view.
• Clip Front — if on, a front clipping plane is active in a view.
• Clip Volume — if on, and a clip volume has been applied to the view, the view volume is restricted to the defined clip volume.