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The View tab is dynamic. It merges tools from the current environment.

Static View

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•Tool Panels >

 Project Explorer - Toggle the visibility of the Project Explorer Tool Panel.

 Draw Cables - Toggle the visibility of the Draw Cables Tool Panel.

 Drawing Properties - Toggle the visibility of the Drawing Properties Tool Panel.

 Find and Replace - Toggle the visibility of the Find and Replace Tool Panel.

 Plan View Tools - Toggle the visibility of the Plan View Tools Tool Panel.

 Favorites - Toggle the visibility of the Favorites Tool Panel.

 Command Line - Toggle the visibility of the Command Line Tool Panel.

 There may be others depending on the plugins that are loaded. These are the default tool panels.

•Show Start Page - Toggle the visibility of the Start Page.

•Skin Gallery - Select the look and feel of the application.

•Switch Windows - {Current Window Set} - Toggle the active window.

 

Drawing Environment View

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View page group

•Pan - Reposition of the view. This can be better done with the mouse wheel of your mouse. Depress the mousewheel to click the button underneath it to activate the PAN mode. NOTE: this relies on your mouse driver middle button set to default.

•Zoom Commands - Zoom command allows the user to increase or decrease the apparent size of objects , so the user can control the part of the drawing that is included in the screen. Zoom commands are transparent. Transparent commands are commands that can be invoked when another command is active.

 Remarks:

 There are several ways to execute the zoom command:

 "E"(Extends) Zooms to display the drawing extents

 "P"(Previous) Zooms to display the previous view

 "W"(Window) Zooms to display an area specified by two opposite corners of a rectangular window. User must specify these two corners.

 "A"(All) zooms to the drawing limits or current extents, whichever is greater.

•Zoom Scale - Show the Zoom Scale dialog. Zooms the display at a specified scale factor. For example, entering 2 doubles the apparent display size of any objects from what it would be if you were zoomed to the limits of the drawing. Entering 0.5 causes each object to be displayed at half its current size on the screen.

•Regenerate - Re render the entire drawing.

•New Viewport commands - Viewports are areas that display different views of your model. As you work, you can split the drawing area into one or more adjacent rectangular views known as model viewports. In large or complex drawings, displaying different views reduces the time needed to zoom or pan in a single view. Also, errors you might miss in one view may be apparent into others. ViewPorts are treated as rectangle drawing objects which display views and can be moved or resized. They can be created only a layout and not in Model space. You can also attach viewports to closed polygons (polylines, circles, ellipses, rectangles).

 

Object Snaps page group

Object Snaps - OSnaps provide an easy way to pick geometric points from the drawing.

 

 

Info page group

•Measure Distance - Measure the distance in Drawing Units(DU) between two points selected from the drawing.

•Area - Measure the area of a selected object.

•ID - Get the drawing ID of the selected object.

 

 

Other

While WireCAD does not currently merge any other tools with the View menu, authors of WireCAD plugins have the ability to merge their own tools onto this ribbon tab. Consult their documentation for information.