More About Locked Views

Consequences of Locking a View

Locking a view implies that you will no longer be able to perform the following operations:

• Create either annotations, dimensions, geometry or use-edges on this locked view.
• Change or modify the filter applied to this locked view.
• Activate or deactivate the view clipping frame.
• Clip or unclip this locked view, or modify the clipping outline of this locked view.
• Activate or deactivate the back-clipping plane of this locked view, or modify the depth of the back-clipping plane which is applied to this locked view.
• Change the view support of this locked view.
• Change the background visualization mode of this locked view.
• Activate or deactivate the 2D visualization mode on this locked view.
• Update, delete or cut the locked view.
• Move generated geometry, annotations, dimensions and dress-up elements in this locked view. (However, you can still move a locked view, as well as you can move 2D geometry added in a locked view.

Locked View Background

As is the case for the background of other views, the background of locked views is transparent. Therefore, its visualization may differ depending on modifications performed in the 3D window.