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Chapter 13. Viewpoints
Viewpoints are an important feature of JetStream. They not only allow you to save and return to views of
the model which are of importance, but they can also be used for design review audit trails and for setting
up animations of the model.
13.1. Saving Viewpoints
Viewpoints contain more than just the camera information - each viewpoint can also contain redlines and
comments. In fact, you can use viewpoints as a design review audit trail. They can be used as hyperlinks
in the main navigation window to click on and zoom to the viewpoint, which will also bring up the redline
and comments associated with it. The viewpoints, redlines and comments are all saved into an .nwf file
from JetStream Roamer, so even if the native CAD files are changing, the saved viewpoints remain the
same over the top, so you can see how the design has evolved. See Chapter 16, Reviewing for more
information on hyperlinks, comments and redlines and Section 7.1.1, “ NWF Files ” for more information
on the .nwf file format.
Viewpoints also retain the section planes active at the time of viewpoint creation, which can be useful in
animating sliding sections. See Section 14.1, “ Sectioning a model ” for more information on sections.
Viewpoints can optionally retain saved attributes too, so that on returning to a viewpoint, overridden
colors, transparencies and hidden items are reinstated. This can be used to great effect to create
animations where items appear and disappear from the scene in time. See Section 13.6, “ Viewpoints
Options ” for more information on options and Section 15.1, “ Creating Animations ” for more information
on animations.
To save a viewpoint
• Go to Viewpoint, Saved Viewpoints, Save Viewpoint.
or
• Right click on the Viewpoints control bar and choose Save Viewpoint.
New viewpoints are named "ViewX" where 'X' is the next available number added to the list. This new
viewpoint will take all the attributes of the current viewpoint in the main navigation window.
13.2. Recalling Viewpoints
To return to a viewpoint
• Go to Viewpoint, Saved Viewpoints and choose the saved viewpoint from the list.
or
• In the Viewpoints control bar, simply click on the viewpoint from the list.
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