7. View Windows
A view window is where you will be doing most all of your editing of points and curves. The top of a view window has four parts: A letter surrounded by a box, a View menu, a Show menu, a Light menu, and a set of three rectangular orientation buttons. The windows are lettered A-D and surrounded by a blue box except in the currently active window, where the letter's box is red.
7a. View
- Ortho - Toggles orthographic/flat display of view screen.
- Perspective - Toggles perspective display of view screen.
- Top - Displays top (X Z) view.
- Front - Displays front (X Y) view.
- Right - Displays right/side (Y Z) view.
- Setting - Brings up a menu for manualy typing in X Y Z coordinates of the camera's location, look_at, and angle values.
- Undo - Undoes the last manipulation of the view in the current view window (has nothing to do with the objects or the scene).
- Redo - Redoes the last undone manipulation of the view in the current view window (has nothing to do with the objects or the scene).
7b. Show
- Point - Toggles display of the points in current patch.
- Curve - Toggles display of the curves in current patch.
- Surface - Toggles display of the surfaces in current patch.
- Axis - Toggles display of the X Y Z axes lines.
- Grid - Toggles display of the grid in all planes.
- Grid(XY plane) - Displays grid in only the specified plane (overides the previous "Grid" command).
- Grid(XZ plane) - Displays grid in only the specified plane (overides the previous "Grid" command).
- Grid(YZ plane) - Displays grid in only the specified plane (overides the previous "Grid" command).
- Grid Setting - Changes the size of a grid square (.001-100), the number of grid squares per axes quadrant (1-1000), and locks individual grid axes from changing (Options can be performed on all windows or only the current).
- Grid Lock - Turns on the snap feature in which a placed point will snap to the closest vertex of the grid, and a translated point or points will move relative to the spacing of the grid. Can be turned on or off on all axes, or just certain axes can be locked to snap.
- background_image - Turns on or off the selected background image for the current view (the view must be set to Ortho and can not have been rotated in order for the image to appear).
- Set Background_image - Brings up a dialog window allowing you to choose a bitmap image to appear in the background for the top, right and front view windows. Also set the center and scale of each bitmap.
- Curve Set - Sets the apparent curvature (1-20) for the specified window.
- Set Surface - Fine tunes the surface curvature (1-20) for the specified window.
- Window - Toggles the various windows just as the Window option does.
- Window Size Max - Fills the B view screen to the edges.
- Document - Same as Window document option.
7c. Light
- Enable Light (for preview) - enables or disables the light for the shaded preview (mock rendering) option with different effects based on option selected below (must have show surface turned on as well to see a difference).
- Use Default Light - Choose to use the default light source in shaded preview.
- Use All Light - Choose to use all lights created via the Dialog Window in shaded preview.
- Use Selected Light - Choose to use only the light currently selected under the Dialog Window in shaded preview.
7d. Sizing & Orientation
The vertical rectangle fills the space occupied by the current view screen and the one below or above it with the current view. Press again to restore to previous setup.
The horizontal rectangle fills the space occupied by the current view screen and the one beside it with the current view. Press again to restore to previous setup.
The double rectangle fills all view screen space with the current view. Press again to restore to previous setup.
For questions, comments, or additions to this documentation please contact: draven2561@hotmail.com.
Documentation by Jonathan Lee Jul. 23, 2002.
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