View

OpenSite Modeling Workflow

Presentation

Tools

Camera

Named Boundaries

Clip

Saved

Window

View Groups

Note: Select a link to "jump" to the desired View group.

The View ribbon interface is explained in details below.

View ribbon interface

Note: For more detail information on View tool, please refer to MicroStation help.

Presentation group

Settings	Description
View Attributes	Allows you to view attributes of certain drawing aids.
Apply Display Settings	Allows you to set the display mode for any view.

Tools group

Settings	Description
Window Area	Allows you to define boundaries within a view window.
Zoom View	Allows you to decrease magnified the view.
Fit View	Allows you to adjust the view.
Update View	Allows you to update the contents of view window.
Zoom View	Allows you to magnify the view.
Pan View	Allows you to view different parts of design without changing the magnified view.
Displayset Set	Allows you to display the selected elements and hide other.
Displayset Add	Allows you to add elements to the displayset.
Displayset Remove	Allows you to select element from the displayset.
Displayset Clear	Allows you to clear the elements from displayset.
Rotate View	Allows you to rotate the view.
Change view to left view	Allows you to rotate view to left view.
View Previous	Allows you to undo view control operation.
Change view to top view	Allows you to change view to top view.
Change view to front view	Allows you to change view to front view.
Change view to back view	Allows you to change view to back view.
Isometric View	Allows you to activate isometric view.
Right-isometric view	Allows you to activate right isometric view.
Bottom View	Allows you to activate view to bottom view.
Walk	Allows you to walk through 3D view of design.
Fly	Allows you to fly through 3D model.
Navigate View	Allows you to move camera in a view.
Change view to right view	Allows you to change view to right view
View Next	Allows you to redo the last undone view operation.
Presentation Illustration	Allows you to set display style to illustration: Modeling.
Presentation Shaded	Allows you to set display style to smooth: Modeling.
Presentation Wireframe	Allows you to set display style to wireframe.

Camera group

Settings	Description
Lens Type	Allows you to set perspective view to match an extra wide-angle or normal camera lens.
Place Camera	Allows you to setup a view camera in 3-point projection mode, by entering data points to define first the camera location, then the camera target location.
Change View Perspective	Allows you to change the perspective angle of a view.
Define Camera	Allows you to set up a view for rendering, or to create saved views.
Photomatch	Allows you to match known points in 3D space to corresponding points in a photograph, to determine the camera position, lens angle and target location.

Named Boundaries group

Settings	Description
Named Boundaries	Allows you to manage named boundaries and named boundary groups.

Clip group

Settings	Description
Clip Volume	Allows you to limit the displayed volume for a view to the region within a clipping element.
Clip Mask	Allows you to mask the display of elements in a view that are located within the region of a clipping element.
Show/Hide Clip Volume	Allows you to change the display of a views clip volume elements.
Clear Clip Volume	Allows you to clear the clip volume from the view.

Saved Views group

Settings	Description
Create Saved View	Allows you to name and describe the view that you want to save.
Updated Saved View Settings	Allows you to update the selected saved view.
Apply Saved View	Allows you to apply the saved view to the selected view or all open views.

Window group

Settings	Description
Copy View	Allows you to copy the content of an entire view.
Cascade	Allows you to stack view windows in numerical order.
Tile	Allows you to tile view windows between all docked windows and dialogs near the edges of the MicroStation window.
Arrange	Allows you to resize all view windows.
View Size	Allows you to control size of the view window.

View groups

View group

Settings	Description
Previous	Allows you to navigate to previously accessed model.
Next	Allows you to navigate to next model.
All Visited	Allows you to navigate to all visited models.
View Toggles	Allows you to click the numbered button to open or close window.

Note: For more detailed information on these tools, please refer to MicroStation help.