- At the top of the browser, click the Representations node to expand, right-click the View node, and then click New.
A new ViewRep node is added to the browser, nested under the View node. It becomes the active View representation, as designated by a check mark. A number is appended to the View node.
- If appropriate, click the View name to activate the edit box, and then enter a new name.
Always give your View representation a descriptive name to help you remember its content.
- Define the assembly viewing characteristics you want to preserve in the View representation.
- Save the file to retain the representation.
- Do one or more of the following to set additional attributes. Right-click the View representation, and then:
- Select Lock to prevent changes to the View representation display characteristics. Components added after a view is locked are not visible while the view is active.
- Select Copy to duplicate the current View representation and make it active. The name is appended by an incremental number.
- Select Copy to Level of Detail to create a Level of Detail representation that keeps the visible components in memory. Is also unloads the invisible components from memory by suppressing them.
- Select Camera View
Save Current Camera to save the current position of the camera and switch off the AutoSave Camera command.
- Select Camera View Restore Saved Camera to restore the last saved position of the camera.
- Select Camera View AutoSave Camera to switch on automatic saving of the current camera position on closing the view representation.
- Select All Visible to turn on visibility for all components.
- Select Nothing Visible to turn off visibility for all components.
- Select Remove Appearance Overrides to return all components to their default appearances.