About Navigation and Viewing Commands

The system includes several navigation and viewing commands to help you to work in the 3D area building.

The navigation and viewing commands include:

  • Activate Story to activate a specific story where you can locate spaces or develop intra-story elements such as stairwells, stairs, and shafts.
  • Activate Component to activate a building component such as a story.
  • Deactivate Story to return to the building view.
  • Show/Hide Building to display or hide the building mass in the 3D area.
  • Building Inspector , which includes a series of toggles to show and hide building structural elements.

Navigation and viewing commands also include these other commands:

  • View Selector to select a view for the 3D area.
  • Selection View to view the building as though it were cut by a plane thereby showing the internal structure.
  • Isometric to switch the building to an isometric view.
  • Trimetric to switch the building to a trimetric view.
  • Zoom to Area to zoom to an area defined by a click and drag.