Browsing, Organizing, and Editing Views and Captures: View Browser

You can navigate between the views and captures in your product with the Views and Captures panel of the view browser and organize them.

Views and Captures is a panel representation in your product which shows all the views and captures with details or as thumbnails. The number of views and captures in your product are mentioned next to the title of the panel.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin:
  • From the View section of the action bar, click View Browser . The Views and Captures panel appears in the work area. Click again to hide it. By default, the panel is activated.
  • To view the panel, create a 3D shape representation with at least one annotation.

Browse Views and Captures

You can browse and navigate between all the views and captures and access their context toolbar.

  1. In the Views and Captures panel, you can display the views and captures in your product in different formats:
    1. Click to display in thumbnails view.
    2. Click to display in details view.
  2. Hover over a thumbnail.
    The ratio and the support or filter (if applicable) appear in a tooltip.
  3. Select a thumbnail or a details view item in the panel.
    • The corresponding view is selected in the work area.
    • A context toolbar appears. It contains the possible commands that can be performed on the selected view:
      • Edit Default Filter: Display filter or Mask filter
      • Display Area: Capture Display Area or Remove Display Area
  4. Double-click a thumbnail.
    The corresponding view of the capture or the capture itself (in absence of a view) is activated in the work area.
  5. Right-click the thumbnail or a list item to access other commands.
  6. Add, delete, or modify the view or capture in the work area.
    The view browser is updated accordingly.

Organize and Edit Views and Captures

You can rename and reorder the views and captures. This is only possible in authoring apps like , 2D Layout for 3D Design, and 3D Tolerancing & Annotation.

  1. In the Views and Captures panel, double-click the name in the thumbnail view or the details view and rename the view or the capture.
    The new name is updated in the tree with the prefix of a projection view, the ID attribute of a section view or a section cut view. If the view or the capture has the same name as its support or filter, then the support or the filter is renamed automatically. This is to obey the naming uniqueness rule.
  2. Drag the thumbnail of a view on another thumbnail above which you want to place it.
    The order is rearranged in the view browser and the tree. Captures cannot be reordered, but they are automatically reordered when the views are.
  3. Change the associatedsupport or filter.
    The view or the capture and the view browser are updated.