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Schematic View Preferences Dialog 697
• Cam eras—Hides or displays cameras and their
children.
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Helper s—Hides or displays helper objects and
their children.
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Space Warps—Hidesordisplaysspacewarp
objects and their children.
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Bone Objects—Hidesordisplaysboneobjects
and their children.
Be aware that if you have a hierarchy linked to a
helper such as a dummy, and you h ide the dummy,
you’ll also hide the children.
Link Style group
Bezier Lines—Displays the reference lines with
arrowheads as Bezier curves.
Straight Lines— Displays the reference lines as
straight lines instead of Bezier curves.
Circui t Li n e s—Displays the reference lines as
orthogonal lines instead of curves.
None— When this is chosen, link relationships wil l
not appear in the Schematic View display.
Grid group
This group controls the display and use of a grid
in the Schematic View.
Show Gr id—Displaysagridinthebackgroundof
the Schematic View w indow.
Snap to Gr id—When t his is on, all moved entities
and children of those entities will snap their upper
left corners to the nearest grid point. Entities not
snapped to a grid point when snap is enabled will
not snap until they are subsequently moved.
Grid Spacing:—Sets the spacing units of the
Schematic View gr id. T his uses the s t andard that
entities are 20 grid units high and 100 grid units
long.
Arrange Method group
Arranging always takes place within the confines
ofthepositiveXandnegativeYspacewhichis
delineated by the darker grid lines.
Stack ed—When this is turn ed on, arranging via
Always Ar range, Arrange Children or Arrange
Selected will result in the hierarchies being stacked
belowawidththatisdeterminedbytheextentsof
the highest entities in the view.
Hor izontal —When this is turne d on arranging
using Always Arrange, Arrange Children or
Arrange Selected will result in the hierarchies
beingdistributedalongandbelowthey=0line.
Arranging always takes place within the confines
ofthepositiveXandnegativeYspace.
Vertical—When this is turned on arranging using
Always Ar range, Arrange Children or Arrange
Selected will result in the hierarchies being
distributedalongandtotherightofthex=0line.
Arranging always takes place within the confines
ofthepositiveXandnegativeYspace.
Sync Selection group
Viewports—When this is chosen, node entities
selected in Schematic View will have their
corresponding nodes selected in the view ports.