Spatix User Guide

View Settings

- Layers

Shows the layer list for the view.

To change the visibility of layers in all views, use the control option in the Layer manager.

Toggle the visibility of layers in the view by a data click on the layer name. Drag the mouse pointer with the data button pressed to toggle the visibility of several layers.

Click Apply to make changes visible in the view.

The active layer can be switched off from display in Spatix.

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- Attributes

Defines attribute settings for the view.

Show filling - display filling of closed elements or only the outline.

Enable Z buffer -

Layer Overrides - ByLayer settings for element attributes overwrite the current element attributes:

•Layer Color

•Layer Line Width

•Layer Line Style

Click Apply to make changes visible in the view.

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View Attributes

Refresh

Redraw the view.

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Update View

Clone

Clone the view.

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Copy View

Escape Window

Make the view independent of the Spatix window. The view can be moved to another screen.

Pan

Pan the view by two data clicks.

Alternative: Press the middle mouse button and move the mouse in order to pan the view dynamically.

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Pan View

Fit

Fit the view extent to elements.

Mode - which elements are considered:

•All - all visible elements.

•CAD elements - visible CAD file elements.

•Selected elements - selected elements.

Expand clipping planes

Center Active Z - sets the active depth of the view to the view center point.

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Fit View

Zoom Area

Draw a zoom area. Keep the data button pressed when drawing the area.

In the View toolbox of stereo views, the zoom tools are combined in another toolset.

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Window Area

Zoom In

Zoom in. Place a data click inside a view to scale up the display.

In the View toolbox of stereo views, the zoom tools are combined in another toolset.

Scale - scale factor of one zoom step.

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Zoom In

Zoom Out

Zoom out. Place a data click inside a view to scale down the display.

In the View toolbox of stereo views, the zoom tools are combined in another toolset.

Scale - scale factor of one zoom step.

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Zoom Out

Rotate

Rotate the view. The availability of tools depends on the view perspective (parallel or camera projection).

View Tool Box/

Rotate View (Dynamic)

Top | Bottom | Left | Right | Front | Back | Isometric

Apply a fixed orientation to the view.

View Tool Box/Rotate View

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Perspective

Apply a camera projection to the view.

Std. camera - camera projection:

•- Custom - - define Focus length and Diag. angle freely.

•Fisheye | Extra Wide | Wide | Normal | Portrait | Telephoto | Telescopic - standard camera projections. Values for Focus length and Diag. angle are predefined.

•No camera (parallel) - no camera is applied, you see a parallel projection view.

View Tool Box/View Perspective

Stereo parameters control

Modify the distance between the two images of a stereo image pair. A smaller distance leads to a larger depth perception and vice versa.

Stereo view windows only.

Stereo distance - binocular disparity, distance between a 3D point in the right image and the same point in the left image.

View Presets

Apply predefined view settings. The list includes presets defined in View params presets dialog.

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Apply Saved Views

Active Z speed

Speed of stereoscopic motion.

Stereo view windows only.

Perform camera movement instead of flat pan

Move the camera when panning.

Stereo view windows only.

Perform camera zoom instead of scale on mouse wheel

Change the camera distance when zooming.

Stereo view windows only.

Undo

Undo view changes.

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Redo

Redo view changes.

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