33.19.24 Views Dialog Box

With the Views dialog box, you can make various modifications to the view displayed in the active graphics window. See Section  29.5 for details about the items below.

Controls

Views   lists the currently defined views. Clicking on a view name highlights that name and enters it into the Name field. Double-clicking on a view name restores that view in the active graphics window.

Save Name   specifies the name to use when saving a view.

Actions   contains buttons for performing various actions related to the Views list and the Save Name.

Default   restores the "front'' view in the active graphics window.

Auto Scale   modifies the view in the active graphics window by scaling and centering the current scene without changing its orientation.

Previous   allows you to return to previous displays.

Save   stores the view in the active graphics window with the name in the Save Name box. See Section  29.5.3 for details.

Delete   removes the selected view name from the Views list.

Be careful not to delete any of the pre-defined views.

Read...   opens the Select File dialog box (see Section  2.1.6), in which you can specify the name of a view file to be read. See Section  29.5.3 for details.

Write...   opens the Write Views dialog box, in which you can select the views to be saved to a view file. See Section  29.5.3 for details.

Mirror Planes   displays a list of all symmetry planes in the domain. Mirror images are drawn for all selected symmetry planes. See Section  29.5.4 for details.

Define Plane...   opens the Mirror Planes dialog box, in which you can define a mirror plane for a non-symmetric domain.

Periodic Repeats   indicates the number of periodic repetitions to be displayed. See Section  29.5.4 for details.

Define...   opens the Graphics Periodicity dialog box, in which you can define periodicity for a periodic domain.

Camera...   opens the Camera Parameters dialog box.