| Control |
Description |
| Drawing View |
The drawing view that contains the viewport. |
| Border |
The shape of the viewport. |
| View Type |
Select the method for displaying the viewport |
| Lock |
Select the checkbox to lock the viewport's appearance and camera position.
Note:
- Only an unlocked viewport can be edited.
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| Plan Unit Scale |
Type the scale to be used to display point symbols, line weights, images and text from the model view whose units are set to Plan.
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| View Scale |
Select the scale to display the viewport contents.
Note:
- You can select Custom to input your own scale in the Custom Scale control.
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| Custom Scale |
Type the factor to scale one unit of the viewport contents.
Note:
- A factor of 500 draws the viewport's contents at a scale of 1:500.
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| Rotation |
Type an angle to orientate data in the viewport.
Note:
- By default, north is up the page.
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| User Coordinate System |
Select the User Coordinate system to use to display the viewport contents. |
| Colour Inversion |
Do one of the following:
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Select the checkbox to invert the colour of the object displayed in the viewport if the colour matches the viewport background colour.
- Clear the checkbox to hide objects or when using polygons with By Background Fill Colour to block out objects in a drawing or block.
Note:
- Objects in the model view are automatically inverted if the colour is the same as the background.
- If you clear the checkbox, make sure all other text that you want to display in the viewport is a colour other than the drawing sheet.
- Tables have their own colour inversion setting.
- Text background colour is never inverted.
- Text displayed with a background has its colour inverted when the text is the same colour as the background and Colour Inversion is selected.
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| Transparency |
Select one of the following:
- None - Display viewport objects as opaque.
- Full - Use transparency effects to display all of the viewports polygons, terrain model faces, shapes and blocks. The level of transparency can be configured using the Transparency Value control.
- By Layer - Use the transparency value configured for the objects layer to display polygons, terrain model faces, shapes and blocks in the viewport.
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| Transparency Value |
When Full transparency is selected, type the value to use for the transparency effect. A lower value results in objects being more transparent. |
| Display Border |
Select the checkbox to display the viewport boundary in the Drawing view.
Note:
- The visibility of the viewport's layer, and the projects display options, determines if the viewport's boundary is displayed in model view.
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