Specify 3D Views

Specify 3D Views

You can create an interactive view of your drawing in the current viewport.

Using the 3D viewing and navigation tools, you can navigate through a drawing, set up a camera for a specific view, and create animations to share your design with others. You can orbit, swivel, walk, and fly around a 3D model, set up a camera, create a preview animation, and record motion path animations that you can distribute to others to visually convey the intent of your design.

You can change a view without interrupting your current operation using a feature that combines panning and zooming.

With dynamic viewing, you can display the effects of changing your viewpoint as you make the changes. Using this method, you can also simplify your view temporarily by choosing only the objects that you need to determine the view. Alternatively, if you press Enter without selecting any objects, 3D Dynamic View displays a model of a small house instead of your actual drawing. You can use this house to define the viewing angle and distance. When your adjustments are complete and you exit the command, the changes are applied to the entire 3D model in the current view.

NoteMore powerful options for dynamic viewing in 3D are available in the 3DORBIT command. For more information, see Use 3D Navigation Tools.

You can create cutaway, or section, views of your drawing by positioning front and back clipping planes that control the visibility of objects based on their distance from a theoretical camera. You can move the clipping planes perpendicular to the line of sight between the camera and target (where the camera is pointing). Clipping removes the display of objects from the front and back of clipping planes. The following illustration shows how clipping planes work: