The workplane of a view is the volume of the structure enclosed between
the dashed lines. The workplane borders are specified by the view
depth parameters in the “Up” and “Down” fields
although the shape of a work plane is constantly represented as a
rectangle box. There is no special tool for narrowing the side view of
the workplane. In this case, it comes in handy just simply selecting the
required objects and enabling in the right-click menu the “Fit work
area to selected parts” in the “Selected views” tab.
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Note that now only the selected objects are visible in the view.
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Select a column and fit the work area to the selected part in the current
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To restore the view, access the respective tab in the right-click menu,
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The TS will widen the visual borders of the work plane to the right, left,
upwards, and downwards, but will not modify the view depth value which
is outlined by the dashed line, this being the situation not corresponding
to reality, as the factual work plane borders can not ignore the view depth
parameter value.
Only after indicating the view depth values into the respective field
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The view depth value is defined in the “View Properties” window.
It is possible to indicate the “Up” and “Down”
fields values with negative characters.
Try out setting up various values of the view depth as well as fitting
to the workplane area several selected parts. It is important to understand
the functionality of this tool as it is a very frequently used one.
The "Projection" field
switches the view from the Orthogonal regime to the Prospective
one. It is not recommended to be used in practice as it tampers with the
model pattern. The prospective view is useful when presenting a model.
Set up the view depth parameter value at 10000mm at the orthogonal regime.
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Now switch the Orthogonal regime to Prospective. Thus the same object
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Rotate the model. Upon completion, restore the "View properties"