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Sets the drawing view style and other properties for a selected drawing view in a 3D volume drawing.

If the drawing document is a 3D composed drawing, see Drawing View Properties Dialog (Place View Command) - Steel Order Drawings for information on the properties shown on this tab.

Name

Specifies a name for the view. You must type a name in order to create a view.

Description

Describes the content of the view. This description is optional.

Style

Specifies a view style, which includes rules for filters, updates, and graphics. The view style controls the output characteristics of the view on the generated drawing. The list displays the 10 most recently used view styles in the session. Click More... to display the Select View Style dialog.

From Parent View

Specifies the child view style (Detail or Section). The view style is considered from the parent view style.

Detail View

This controls the detail view graphics. The view style is the same as that of the parent view. By default, the parent's view style is set to detail view if this option is selected.

Section View

This controls the section view style, which is selected from the parent view style. For DBR views, the respective view style is selected from the parent view style based on the cutting plane direction.

Orientation

Positions the view in the model. For example, the view can look north, south, east, or west in the model.

Use object coordinate system

Specifies that the drawing takes its viewing direction directly from the object within the drawing view, not from the orientation of the drawing view.

Scale

Sizes the view as a ratio of drawing size to actual model size. If you select Custom for the scale, you must type values that are greater than zero in the boxes at the right to set the scale-to-scale ratio for object-to-drawing view.

  • For Custom scale, the default is to the document's unit of measure setting. For example, if you define values of 1 in to 1 ft, the values are converted to mm if that is the default unit of measure.

  • Do not use negative values when defining custom scale values.

  • For volume drawings, if the volume is too big for the drawing view, the software centers the volume in the drawing view.

Navigation rule

Specifies the navigation rule to use to traverse elements to be included in the range for Orthographic Drawings by Query. This dropdown only appears when you are placing views on drawings created by the Orthographic Drawings by Query component in the Drawings and Reports 3D task. The navigation rule can also optionally return separate object collections, whose range is included in the 3D object range. If no navigation rule is specified, the drawing object collection includes everything in the 3D object range. The delivered rules are:

HngSupSimpleNavigator.dll

Specific to Hanger and Support objects. Returns the HangersSupport objects, support components, supporting objects, supported objects, and the design children (recursively). It also returns the control points on the HangerSupport objects and support components.

HngSupRangeNavigator.dll

Same as HngSupSimpleNavigator.dll with design children collection to extent the HangerSupport range.

DrawingSpoolNavigator.dll

Specific to Spools. Returns the Spool, its connected parts, and their features.

AssemblyNavigator.dll

Specific to Assemblies. Returns the assemblies, pipe spool, penetration spool, its connected parts, and their features.

Convert report output to text boxes (no Excel)

Specifies that any report associated with this drawing view will be converted automatically to native text box format, even if the report is an Excel spreadsheet report. See Convert Excel Spreadsheet Reports to Native Text Box Format Custom Command.

Flush Threshold

Sets a parameter for memory management. When the number of objects processed for a drawing document reaches the Threshold value, they are removed from memory. If they are needed later, they are recalled from the database. This property helps improve drawing update performance. The Flush Threshold property is only available for composed drawing documents. The default value is 2000, with a range of 5-5000. The higher number is faster but uses more memory, which is acceptable for smaller drawings. Lower numbers are slower but allow larger drawings to complete faster.

If a drawing document does not successfully update in the Drawings and Reports 3D task, check the error log for the drawing document. If the error log shows memory overflow errors, lower the Flush Threshold value.

VHL Precision

Sets a parameter for Hidden Line removal processing to consider two lines as identical. This property setting has a direct impact on the visibility of the lines in the drawing. It improves drawing update performance, but it may reduce drawing quality. The VHL precision property is only available for composed drawing documents. The default value is 0.000001, with a range of 0.001 to 0.000001. The smaller the number, the more accurate the graphic elements are in the 2D view.

If some intersections of complex surfaces appear on/off along the curve, the precision of the VHL may be too restrictive compared to the precision by which the surfaces were created. Lowering the VHL Precision value may help the display of the intersections, but lowering the value too much could degrade the overall quality and the visibility of the drawing details.

Geometry Validation

Sets a parameter for drawing completion and quality to improve drawing update performance. The Geometry Validation property is available for composed drawing documents only. The default value is Off. When set to Off, the drawing document completes, but invalid geometries are left out. If set to On, the drawing document does not complete if invalid geometries are encountered during update.

Tag

Identifies the reference mark for the selected detail view. This property is only available when a detail or section view is selected.

Caption

Identifies the callout text assigned to the selected detail view. This property is only available when a detail or section view is selected.

See Also

Place Drawing View Command
Drawing View Properties Dialog