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Chapter 17. Viewpoints
Viewpoints are an important feature of NavisWorks. 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.
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 NavisWorks, 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 20, Reviewing for more
information on hyperlinks, comments and redlines and “ 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 “ 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 “ Viewpoints Options ” for more
information on options, and Chapter 19, Animation for more information on animations.
To save a viewpoint:
• On the Viewpoint menu, click Saved Viewpoints > Save Viewpoint.
or
• Right-click 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.
Recalling Viewpoints
To return to a viewpoint
• Click 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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