Automatic Configuration

For any 3D object, there are six standard views according to the coordinate system of the object. You can also add an isometric view. In an automatic configuration, you can select the standard view you want to define as the base view around which adjacent views are automatically generated.

  1. From the View section of the action bar, click Multi-View Customization... .
  2. In the Views and Layout dialog box, select the Automatic tab.

    The six standard views are mapped onto a cube, each face of this cube being perpendicular to one of the directions of the 3D axis. Whatever the orientation of the cube, the observer can see three faces (that is, three standard views) as shown below:



    The View Selection area represents the unfolded cube of standard views: each square represents a standard view and the square placed at the center is the base view around which adjacent views are automatically generated. In the default configuration displayed below, the base view is the standard Left View:



  3. Select the standard view you want to define as the base view using one of these two methods:
    • Select directly in the View Selection area the view you want to define as the base view: the selected view is at the center and all the adjacent views are regenerated accordingly. In the example below, Back View is selected:



    • Click the translation arrow to shift Back View to the center (or any other translation arrow depending on the standard view you want to define as the base view). Clicking a translation arrow shifts the views in the arrow's direction.
  4. Click Apply.
    The configuration is applied to the current tab and the Views and Layout dialog box stays open:

    When you manipulate a viewpoint in one of the four views, the other three viewpoints are not modified and you can manipulate them independently from each other:



  5. Select a group of views by clicking an Isometric View in one of the four corners of the View Selection area.

    This amounts to selecting a vertex of the cube and you then see the three adjacent faces.

    The selected Isometric View is computed from its three adjacent views and the four views (Isometric + adjacent) is highlighted:



    The View Selection area also contains four rotation arrows (such as ) enabling you to change the orientation of the current base view: clicking an arrow rotates the base view by 90 degrees in the arrow's direction. When the base view is rotated, all the adjacent views as well as the isometric view are recalculated.

  6. Click the rotation arrow repeatedly and verify the result in the View Selection area.
  7. When satisfied with your configuration, click OK (or Apply then OK).
    Your configuration is applied and the Views and Layout dialog box is closed.
  8. To go back to the standard view, click Multi-View from the View section of the action bar.