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Examine Individual Objects with ViewCube
You can lock the ViewCube tool to a set of selected objects. Locking a selection
of objects to the ViewCube tool defines the center of the current view and the
distance from center for the view based on the selected objects. To turn off
Lock to Selection, you can click the Lock to Selection
button next to
the Home view button.
Selecting and deselecting objects after Lock to Selection is turned on has no
effect on the center or distance from the center of the view when a view
orientation changes. You cannot zoom fit to view a model when Lock to
Selection is on, even if the ViewCube tool is set to zoom fit to view after each
view orientation change.
To lock to the current selection
■ Right-click the ViewCube tool, and click Lock to Selection.
If Lock to Selection is checked when a view orientation change occurs, the
selected objects are used to calculate the center of the view and the view
zooms to the extents of the selected objects. When cleared, the selected
objects are used to calculate the center of the view and the view zooms to
the extents of the model.
To examine an individual object with ViewCube
1 In the model, select one or more objects to define the centerpoint of the
view.
2 Click one of the preset locations on the ViewCube tool, or click and drag
the ViewCube tool to reorient the view of the model.
The ViewCube tool reorients the view of the model based on the
centerpoint of the selected objects.
Navigation Bar
Unified and product-specific navigation tools can be accessed from the
navigation bar.
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