Datasheet

GettinG the View You want

Now, suppose you don’t like the last view change you made and you want to go back to the

previous view. Try the following steps to return to the previous view:

1. Choose Views  Undo View Change. You return to the previous view. (Alternatively,

press Shift+Z.)

2. Choose Views  Undo View Change or press Shift+Z again. Your view returns to the

view prior to the last view.

3. Choose Views  Undo View Change a third time. You return to the view you had before

you panned your view.

The Views  Undo View Change command lets you step back to a previous view in case the

last view change you made is one you don’t like. Views  Undo View Change undoes any view

change, regardless of which Viewport tool you used last.

Undo View Is Different from Undo

Don’t confuse Views  Undo View Change with the Edit  Undo command. Edit  Undo undoes

creation and editing operations but not view changes.

Sa V i n G a Vi e w Yo u li K e

If you happen to get a view that you know you want to go back to later, you can save the view

with the Views  Save Active command from the menu bar. Use it in the next exercise to save a

view that you’ll return to later in this chapter. And, as you’ll see in Chapter 8, you can also cre-

ate a camera object and align it to an existing view.

1. Click the Zoom Extents tool to set up your view for the next exercise. Zoom Extents

causes the viewport to display the entire model.

2. Save this view by choosing Views  Save Active Perspective View.

Figure 1.48

Zooming out to

view a larger area

02344c01.indd 45 7/24/09 1:21:25 PM