Datasheet

GETTING THE VIEW YOU WANT

Figure 1.34

Two of the four view-

ports are now Perspec-

tive viewports.

2. Right-click the Perspective label of the upper-left viewport, and then select Views  Top. The

view now changes back to the original top view. Notice that the chairs are still in wireframe.

3. Right-click the Top label, then select Smooth + Highlights. The view returns to its original state.

Now two of the viewports still show wireframe views of the chairs. Wireframe views are often bet-

ter for many types of editing operations. Wireframes also redraw faster when your model is very

large and full of complex geometry. Another type of view, called bounding box, is even faster than a

wireframe view, but bounding box views reduce the representation of objects to rectangular boxes.

The Edged Faces mode, available when the viewport is in any of the available shaded modes, displays

both the shaded mode and the edges of the visible objects.

Besides changing the way the viewport displays your model, wireframe view also gives you

control over the layout of the viewports themselves. The following exercise shows you the variety

of layouts you can create in VIZ.

1. Choose Customize  Viewport Configuration. The Viewport Configuration dialog box

appears, as shown in Figure 1.35.

2. Click the Layout tab. You see the current viewport layout. Above it is a set of predefined lay-

outs, as shown in Figure 1.36.

3. Click the layout that looks like three small rectangles stacked on the left side with one large

rectangle on the right (see Figure 1.37).

4. Click OK. The viewports change to the selected layout.

5. Click the Zoom Extents All button to zoom all the viewports to show the contents of the

scene. Your viewports should look similar to the viewports in Figure 1.38.

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