View Object


Description

The View object represents a view in a document.

Methods

Name Description
Activate Method that causes this view to become the active view (i.e. receive user-focus).
Close Method that closes the view. If only one view exists for a document and the Close method is called it will also cause the Document to close.
Fit Method that fits all of the contents of the document within the view. Can optionally cause the display of the view to be updated.
GetWindowExtents Method that returns the current size and position of the view's window.
GoHome Method that sets the view to the default view of the model.
Move Method that moves the window this view is contained within.
ResetFront Method that resets the front view to the factory default.
SaveAsBitmap Method that saves the view as a bitmap.
SaveAsBitmapWithOptions Method that saves the view as a bitmap with more options. The width and height arguments define the aspect ratio and the number of pixels in the output image. The Options argument allow you to define more effects for the bitmap.
SaveAsBitmapWithRayTracing Method that saves the view with ray tracing on as a bitmap in one of the following types: bmp, jpg, png, tiff, and gif.
SetCurrentAsFront Method that sets the current view as the front view.
SetCurrentAsHome Method that sets the current view as the home view.
SetCurrentAsTop Method that sets the current view as the top view.
Update Method that causes the view to update. In some cases, changes made to a model or to the view will not immediately be shown in the view and the Update method must be called to cause the view to refresh.

Properties

Name Description
Application Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
AreTexturesOn
Camera Property that returns a Camera object which contains the information that defines the current contents of the view.
Caption
DisplayMode
Document Property that returns the the view is associated with.
Height
HWND Property that returns the hWnd for the window. This provides convenient access to the window's hWnd. Having the hWnd allows you to use various Windows API calls with the window.
IsRayTracingPaused
Left
Parent Property that returns the parent object from whom this object can logically be reached.
RayTracing
RayTracingProgress Gets the progress in percentage of the ray tracing process.
RayTracingQuality
ShowAmbientShadows
ShowGroundPlane
ShowGroundReflections
ShowGroundShadows
ShowObjectShadows
Top
Type Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.
ViewFrame
ViewTab
Visible
Width
WindowState

Accessed From

Application.ActiveView, ViewList.Item, Views.Add, Views.Item, ViewsEnumerator.Item

Samples

Name Description
Drive the camera This sample will fly the camera around the model. To simplify the code, the target is hard coded at the origin and the up vector is the positive Z.
Create sheet metal face and fold features This sample demonstrates the creation of sheet metal face and fold features.
Client graphics texture-based color mapping This test applies texture coordinates expressing distance from the origin to 'the triangle mesh of whatever Part you have open. It then creates either a discrete-band or continuous color mapper and allows you to adjust the values of the mapper to change the range of values that map to various colors.
Create sheet metal lofted flange feature The following sample demonstrates the creation of a sheet metal lofted flange feature.
Client graphics - image in point graphics The following sample demonstrates creation of point client graphics with a custom image.
Create sheet metal rip feature This sample demonstrates the creation of a rip sheet metal feature.
Transient solid body creation The following sample demonstrates the creation of a transient solid block body. The newly created body is then displayed using client graphics in a part.
Client graphics creation of 3D primitives This sample demonstrates the creation of 3D primitives (cylinder, cone, etc.) using client graphics.
Create curve primitives This sample demonstrates the creation of curve primitives (lines, arcs, circles, etc.) using client graphics.
Cancel a double click Demonstrates how to receive (and in this case, cancel) a double click from a user.
OnDrag Event - dragging a WorkPoint This sample demonstrates the use of the OnDrag event to drag fixed work points when no command is active. This sample only allows drags parallel to the X-Y plane. This sample is dependent on events and VB only supports events within a class module.

Version

Introduced in version 4