The View tab of the View Annot Properties dialog allows you to modify the various properties of a View annotation.
1. Camera Type
There are two Camera Types which can be used for a View annotation in CM4D:
Perspective - Views with a Perspective camera type are those which will display 3D images and depth relationships on the two-dimensional surface of a View. In other words, images will appear to have vanishing points and depth within a View, representing a "natural" view of a 3D image. Perspective is the default camera type for all view.
Orthographic - An Orthographic view is on having perpendicular lines and no converging points. This type of view may be preferred for technical purposes, such as use with displaying Alignment reports.
2. Style
Within Style, you can choose a Style type to apply to the View. Style options include: Embedded Style (default), Use Score for Style, and Use Conditional Style.
3. View Image Type
There are four View Image Type options:
No Image - Displays only feature markers in the view.
DataSource Image(s) - Displays an image that is saved in the database and associated to the View's DataSource. See the topic Images in CM4D.
Document Image(s) - Displays an image that is saved in the document. See the topic Document Images.
Display View Axis - Displays the View axis triad, without any 3D model. See the topic Display View Axes.
4. Axis
The View Axis represents the coordinate planes of a 3D image within the view. The Axis will follow the orientation of the image as it is rotated.
View Axis Properties
The View Axis Properties dialog contains options to adjust the size and position of the XYZ axis as it appears in a View annotation. See also, View Axes.
Axis Location - The coordinate position within the area of the View annotation. Enter a value between zero (0.0) and one (1.0) in the Horizontal and Vertical position fields to assign the coordinate position of the axis triad in the View. One of the four corners using 0 and 1 are typically used (as shown below), but intermediate decimal coordinates are valid. The axis position also determines the corresponding location of the orientation cube.
| Axis Location | Horiz. | Vert. | |
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Bottom Left | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Bottom Right | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| Top Left | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
| Top Right | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Horizontal Left | 0.0 | ||
| Horizontal Right | 1.0 | ||
| Vertical Top | 1.0 | ||
| Vertical Bottom | 0.0 | ||
Orientation Cube Location - The cube is automatically positioned diagonally opposite to the axis triad. For example, if the axis position is (1,0) then the position of the cube will be (0,1).
Axis Size - The size of the axis tripod. Enter a number in the Size field; this value represents a decimal percentage in relation to the view area. The default is 0.2. This size also automatically applies to the Orientation Cube, which is visible only when the view is in Edit Mode.
5. Transparency
View Transparency refers to the opacity of the image within a view annot. To alter the degree of transparency, slide the bar between Solid and Invisible. Moving the slider bar towards Invisible will make any markers on the opposite sides and interior of the view visible.
The transparency slider in the View properties only applies to Views that use the Display Mode Shaded or Shaded with Lines.
If you are using a 3D image file that has transparency settings defined in the image file, then the predefined transparency settings will be imported along with the image into CM4D. If you set Transparency on the View, the View transparency settings will override any transparency settings embedded in the file.
For JT images with built-in transparency, adjusting the transparency slider in the View properties may have unexpected results.
6. Each time View resolves
Select any of the following options you want to apply each time a View is resolved.
Uncross Leaders
When the Uncross Leaders check box is enabled, any leader lines attached to your view will be automatically uncrossed each time the View is resolved. The Uncross Leaders function will only work properly if the View is connected to the same DataSource as the Annot with which it is connect
Re-run AutoReport
The Re-run AutoReport check box enables the continuous Auto Report function. This option allows the Auto Report to be run on an individual View, so that each time the View is resolved, the existing Auto Report is refreshed. If this check box is enabled, and Undo AutoReport Layout is selected from the Sheets Menu, the following warning dialog will appear:
Clicking Yes in the warning dialog will disable the Re-run AutoReport check box in the View Properties and remove Auto Report from the View. The Re-run AutoReport function differs from the Sheet Auto Report in that at the Sheet level, Auto Report must be Run from the Auto Report dialog each time DataSet information is modified. Using the View Properties Re-run AutoReport allows the Report to automatically resolve any changes made to the DataSet information in the Report each time the view is resolved.
Purge Unused Report Features
The Purge Unused Report Features check box determines whether or not feature markers will be displayed in the View. Any features included in the View that do not have associated annot on the sheet will not have feature markers displayed in the View when the Purge option is enabled.
| Purge Enabled | View with Purge Disabled | |
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The Purge option is particularly useful when running AutoReport or ReportTweak, since only the features relating to the particular annot on a sheet will be shown in a View.
Auto Orient
You can set up a View to orient the 3D image according to specific rules. To use the Auto-Orient functions, enable the check box and click Setup to configure the orientation options. For details, see the topic Auto Orient a View.
7. Markers
The marker settings apply to the Feature Markers in the View.
Mode - Set the type of Feature markers; applies to all features in the View.
Feature Specific - Use the 3D markers assigned according to the Feature type. See also, CM4D 3D Feature Markers.
Sphere - Use the generic Sphere marker for all Features, regardless of Feature type.
Resolution - Set the display resolution of the feature markers in the View. This setting may affect performance of loading Views depending on your hardware or network capabilities.
Low - Use Low Resolution feature markers. Enable this option if you experience performance degradation when loading feature markers with High Resolution.
High - Use High Resolution feature markers. Enable this option for the best display quality of feature markers in a View.
Scale - Resize the feature markers by entering a value multiplier.
Use Auto Scale - Enable to allow CM4D to calculate an ideal marker size based on the total model size.
This scale is based on the entire model image, so if you find the markers too small perform a zoom max on the view to check if there are any extraneous parts to the model which may be apart from the primary model coordinates.
See Feature Marker Auto Scale example here See Feature Marker Auto Scale example here
8. Lighting
Apply custom lighting to the 3D models in the View. See the topic View Lighting for more information.
9. Image Filters
See the topic Image Layers.