The View tab is the central location for defining and changing views and navigating the drawing.
Note: The View tab contains a number of commands also found on the application status bar.
- Navigate. Contains the ViewCube and SteeringWheels, as well as the Pan, Zoom, and Orbit commands.
- Appearance. Here, you can select predefined views, create new views, open View Manager, select a visual style, open the Visual Styles Manager, and define Walk and Fly settings. You can access predefined display themes. You can also adjust clip planes and access the Regenerate commands.
- Coordinates. Contains commands relevant to the World Coordinate System (WCS) or User Coordinate System (UCS).
- Viewports. Here you can switch between different viewport configurations, create new viewports, and clip and join viewports.
- Face Effects. Contains commands for defining object settings, including shading, color, face lighting, and x-ray.
- Edge Effects. Contains command for defining edge settings, including facet edges, isolines, edge overhang, jitter, and silhouette. You can also define the color of obscured edges and edge intersections here.
- Windows. Contains most of the commands that were on the Window menu in previous versions. Here you can switch between open drawings, arrange open windows onscreen, lock the workspace windows, display and hide the drawing window status bar, turn items on the drawing window status bar on an off, and display the text window.