Use these icons to set the display mode to wireframe, hidden line, shaded or fast hidden line.  3D part curves (i.e., wireframes) are processed in hidden prior to display on the drawing sheet.  If a curve or part of a curve is hidden by the part it will be displayed using the linetype selected for hidden lines.  Refer to the Lines section below.

 

Explode the view if it is referencing an assembly that has been exploded using the Explode Assembly command.

 

Hidden line check for intersecting shapes.  Turns off propagation and will limit incorrect hidden line results to the vicinity of the interference.  This mode is slower, but produces a much better hidden line when surfaces inter-penetrate.

 

Disable view regeneration.  This will cause the Regenerate 3D Layout Views icon to turn green.  You can ignore it for now or select it to regen all views to turn it off.  Views dependent on the view such as details and sections will regen properly.  Similarly, when you deactivate this option, the icon will also turn green.  In this case, you should select it and regen all views to make sure all views are up to date. This option is disabled if shaded or hidden line mode is enabled (see above).

 

To disable view regeneration for a circular or rectangular detail view, use this option on their base views.  This option is disabled for those views.

 

Convert spline curves to arc and line segments in the view.

 

Remove duplicate curves.  Overlapping and duplicate lines and arcs to be filtered out.

 

Show centerlines for hole features.

 

Show threads.  If the part has thread attributes attached to holes, they can be displayed in new layout views.  In a drawing sheet these are referred to as cosmetic threads.

 

Show dimensions from part.  All part dimensions parallel to the view plane will be displayed.

 

Show annotation text from part.  If the Plane option for All 3D annotation text will be displayed.

 

Show 3D wireframe curves or sketches (if visible) from the part.  If the part contains topology (e.g., feature geometry) it will also be displayed.  If the part contains no topology, VX looks to see if it can locate a sketch that is not blanked.  If one is found, it will be displayed as well as any wireframe curves.  The display mode should be set to wireframe for parts that contain no topology.

 

All wireframe geometry displayed in the layout view is assigned the color specified on the Color tab of the VX Configuration Form for Part wireframe.

 

Show scale

Display the view scale. (see CAD Tips & Techniques).

 

X/Y or X.X

Sets the scale mode to either a ratio (e.g., 2/1) or a decimal (e.g., 2.0).  Enter the ratio or decimal values as desired.  A change to one will update the other.

 

Show the 3D zero point for each view if this icon is pressed.  The zero point is initially displayed as a red "+" (plus sign).  Its attributes can be changed using the Point Attributes Form (right-click on point and select Attributes or go to Attributes > Edit).  The zero point is attached to the view and can be dimensioned to.

 

 

 

• Show label - Displays the label (e.g., Front View) below the layout view.  See also Editing View Labels for more information.

• Label - View labels are automatically generated based on the type of view created (e.g., Top, Front, Side View, etc.).  Section and detail views are also automatically sequenced (e.g., Section A-A, Detail B, etc.).  If you want a custom label, you can enter it here.

• Show label prefix - Check this box to show the label prefix (e.g., "Detail") otherwise it will not be displayed.

• Color, Height - Sets the color and text height for the view label.

 

 

 

All of the options on this tab are disabled if Shaded or Fast Hidden line mode is enabled. See General options above.

 

• List - no Lists the types of view lines whose attributes can be set.  Select the type and then set the color, style, width.

• Color, Style, Width - These options set the attributes for the line type selected in the list above.  Once you select a color, line style, or line width, they will be automatically assigned to the selected line type.  
  
  For Visible, Hidden, Tangent and Tangent Hidden line types you can select -FROM PART- as the color.  This will get the color of each piece of geometry in the model and assign it to the corresponding geometry in the drawing.  Also refer to the Notes section below regarding this feature.
   

• Layer - Use this attribute to assign all lines of a specific type to a layer.  For Visible, Hidden, Tangent and Tangent Hidden line types you can select -FROM PART- as the layer.  This will get the layer of each piece of geometry in the model and assign it to the corresponding geometry in the drawing.  If a layer exists in the model but not the drawing, it will be created.  Each time the drawing is regenerated, the layer assignments will change to match the model.

 

 

 

 

See Attribute Bundles and Form Commonalities and Command Options Forms for any options not listed here.

 

 

 

 

• If layout views are currently selected for Object Editing, you can right-click and select Attributes to display this form and change their attributes.

• Activating the following Effects options will increase the time required to generate 3D layout views.  Also, generating hidden line views for solids is faster than for shapes (i.e., open sets of faces).
   

• The default attributes on this form will change automatically if view attributes are changed during any of the view insertion commands (e.g., using the Attributes input options during the Insert View Layout or other insert view command).  For example, if you modify the view attributes while inserting a view, the same attributes will be used the next time a view is inserted.
   

• Refer to the special situations below when certain attributes may be disabled.
   

Attributes that may be disabled at times
Standard Views Standard views (TOP, BOTTOM, etc..) which use shaded or fast hidden line display mode.
	Hidden line check for intersecting shapes
	Enable view regen
	Convert lines to arcs
	Remove duplicate curves
	Show threads
	Show centerlines
	Show text from part
	Show 3D curves from part
n/a	All of the "Line" tab - you cannot modify any line type information
Section views
	Show text from part
	Show 3D curves from part
Project and Auxiliary views
n/a	All buttons on the view attributes from are disabled during view insert until a base view is selected.  After that, if an attribute is selected in the base view, it is selected in the projection or auxiliary view.
Detail views
n/a	All buttons on the view attributes from are disabled during view insert until a base view is selected.  After a base view is selected, a modified attributes for containing only information for the detail border and label is displayed and enabled.  After that, if an attribute is selected in the base view, it is selected in the detail view.  In addition the following buttons are disabled.
	Hidden line check for intersecting shapes
	Enable view regen
	Remove duplicate curves
	Show dimensions
	Show text from part
Def'n views (section, detail, and aux. view arrows)
n/a	Def'n views are things like the section definition line (the cutting line which defines the section), detail definition (the circle, rectangle or polylines which define a detail view).  Aux. view arrows (if turned on) point to the view used to generate an auxiliary view.  On a drawing each of these is designated as a view entity and it is possible to display their view attributes.  Many of the view attributes do not apply and are disabled.  The complete list follows.
	Explode assembly
	Hidden line check for intersecting shapes
	Enable view regen
	Convert lines to arcs
	Remove duplicate curves
	Show threads
	Show centerlines
	Show dimensions
	Show text from part
	Show 3D curves from part
	Show 3D zero point
n/a	Show scale and all related fields
n/a	All of the fields on the "General" tab are disabled - the "Label" tab is displayed first by default.

 

• Detail views inherit the attributes (including color & layer) from their base views.  In the event that a detail view and it's base view are no longer in sync, (the base view was modified to not use "-FROM PART-" for its line color) the detail view will display a blank line in the layer combo box or a blank button for the color of the line type indicating        that this condition exists and that by doing nothing the layer/color setting will remain the same.  If you modifies the attributes of the base view so that they are once again in sync, the detail view will once again display "-FROM PART-".  The same sort of functionality will be implemented for section views once they can support using "-FROM PART-".