In STAR-CCM+, every scene has a camera to convert the three-dimensional objects in a scene into the two-dimensional image visible on the screen. This image is stored as a View node in the STAR-CCM+ simulation tree, which has its own properties and is subject to common menu items.
The properties of this view consist of the position, focal point (target), orientation (view-up) and projection mode of the image in a scene display.
Each scene also has a current view, which changes as the camera view changes (by zooming, panning, or rotating in the scene). The properties of the current view can be displayed on the tree by expanding the Scenes node, expanding a scene node, and clicking the View node. The focal point and position vector are displayed under their respective properties in the Properties window. Another vector is displayed under the View Up property which dictates the vertical vector in the scene window. These vectors are read-only and the current scene can only be manipulated from within the scene window. The Projection Mode property controls how the camera maps world coordinates into view coordinates. The two options are:
