About View/Annotation Planes

The view/annotation planes are by default displayed in the 3D with a dashed frame that is resized to always frame all the annotations that are linked to it.

When the view/annotation plane is active (the preferred view to receive newly created annotations), its origin and axis system is also displayed and the dashed frame is also resized to frame the axis system origin.

You can control the 3D display of the rounded frame of a view by modifying its Display View Frame property in View properties.

You can also control the display of the active axis system using the options available under View/Annotation Plane Display. See .

The view/annotation planes are created using the following rules.

• The view/annotation plane axes take into account:
  • The selected plane normal.
  • The view direction of the viewer.
  • Axes of the document.
• When using a reference plane, the view/annotation plane is always parallel to the reference plane but its X and Y axes are not necessarily parallel to the reference plane edge directions. If you like to keep these directions, you must associate an axis system to the reference plane before use it for the view/annotation plane creation.
• When creating a new view/annotation plane by selecting a planar surface, the origin that is chosen is the 3D shape/product origin. If you want to choose the origin (and the axis orientation) of the view, you must select an existing axis system while creating.

A view/annotation plane name uniqueness can be verified while creating and editing by selecting the appropriate check box in Me > Preferences.

Select Ensure uniqueness of view/annotation plane names check box in Naming Uniqueness section, see .

An axis system is associated with a view/annotation plane and by default only the axis system is only displayed for the active view/annotation plane.

According to the type of view/annotation plane, the axis system is colored as below:

• Blue for a projection view/annotation plane.
• Green for a section view/annotation plane.
• Yellow for a section cut view/annotation plane.

In addition, two labels are displayed to indicate the corresponding axis:

• Vert for the vertical or X axis.
• Horz for the horizontal or Y axis.

You can manage the view/annotation plane axis display in Me > Preferences, see .

The 3D Tolerancing & Annotation view becomes invalid if the geometry referenced by it is deactivated or unresolved.

A view becomes invalid in the following conditions:

• If a view is created by selecting a planar geometry and this reference geometry is deleted, deactivated, or unresolved. When the geometry is available again, the view becomes valid and remains associative to it.
• If the geometry referenced by a view is deactivated or unresolved, the view becomes invalid. However, the position and orientation of the view remains unchanged.

Created view

Invalid view The plane associated with the view is deactivated. As a result, the view becomes invalid.