Defining the View Plane

You can define the view plane for various types of views including auxiliary and isometric.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin:
  • By default, the View Plane Definition command is not available in any of the toolbars. To make it available, you need to customize the toolbar. Refer to Customizing: Customizing a Toolbar by Adding Commands for more information.
  • Open a drawing representation including front, right and top views.

Open a drawing representation.

Related Topics
Creating a Multiple View Projection
Creating Views Using Folding Lines
More About Defining the View Plane

Define the Front View Plane

You can define the front view plane.

Activate the front view in which you want to change the plane definition, by double-clicking on this view.



Note: The view name and the view scale are displayed in the view as per the settings done by the administrator. For more information, refer to Managing View Texts.

  1. Click the View Plane Definition icon from the customized toolbar.

    The View Plane dialog box appears with options on the view plane definitions for front views, auxiliary views and isometric views.



  2. Select the desired options from the View Plane Definition area. In this case, enter 1 as the X value and 0 as the Y and Z values for Vector1; enter 1 as the Y value and 0 as the X and Z values for Vector2.

  3. Click OK.The front view plane definition is updated.

Define the Auxiliary View Plane

You can define the auxiliary view plane.

For creating an auxiliary view, you need to create any view first and then modify the view plane you want. In this case, create an auxiliary view.

Make sure the view in which you want to change the plane definition is active. If it is not, double-click to activate it.



  1. Click the View Plane Definition icon from the customized toolbar.

    The View Plane dialog box appears.



  2. In another orthogonal view, click the line that you want to use to define the auxiliary view plane.

    The View Plane dialog box automatically displays the corresponding vectors and origin point.

  3. Select the Rotate Auxiliary View Axis option to rotate the auxiliary view axis.

  4. Click OK.

    The axis automatically rotates in accordance with the dialog box values applied to the selected plane.



Define the Isometric View Plane

You can define the isometric view plane.

Click the New View icon in order to create an empty view. In this case, position the cursor so as to create an isometric view.

Activate the newly created view, in which you want to change the plane definition, by double-clicking it.



  1. Click the View Plane Definition icon from the customized toolbar.

    The View Plane dialog box appears.

  2. Enter the desired values in the dialog box (Isometric).

    OR

    Select the desired pre-defined isometric view vectors. In this case, we selected YZX (center of the top row in the Isometric Views area).



  3. Click OK. The isometric view plane definition is updated.