3D view: Basics and functionalities

With this functionality you can change the viewing angle of the mounting layout in the layout space by moving your mouse or finger.

1. If not activated yet, click or tap the button .
2. Click the layout space and keep the left mouse button pressed. Or touch the layout space with the finger.
3. While holding the mouse button down move the mouse or the finger in the direction in which the viewing angle is to be changed.
4. The mounting layout graphic in the layout space follows the movement of the mouse or the finger, and rotates in the corresponding direction.

By using the Clipping layer functionality, electrical or mechanical items in the mounting layout that are covered by other objects can be made visible.

Procedure

1. Click or tap the button .
2. Click the layout space in the main view and keep the left mouse button pressed. Or tap the layout space in the main view with the finger.
3. Move the mouse or the finger slowly over the layout space vertically upwards.
4. This way you define a visible depth layer in the Z direction through the layout space that is displayed in the Clipping layer view by movable red lines.
5. All items below the line of the mounting layout are hidden in the main view and allow a view on the previously hidden items.
4. If you want to make the hidden items and routing connections of the mounting layout visible again in the layout space, move your mouse or finger slowly vertically downwards.

This functionality allows you to move the view of the complete mounting layout in X and Y direction to any position in the layout space, irrespective of the set viewing angle.

Procedure

1. Click or tap the button .
2. Click the layout space in the main view and keep the left mouse button pressed. Or tap the layout space in the main view with the finger.
3. While holding the mouse button down, move your mouse or finger to the desired position.
4. The mounting layout graphic in the layout space follows the movements of your mouse or finger.

This functionality creates different orthogonal views (top, bottom, left, right, front, back) of your layout space that can be performed in 90° steps.

1. In the main view click or tap the button .
2. Left, right, above and below the visualized mounting layout, the following arrow buttons are displayed: .
2. Click or tap the desired arrow button.
3. The mounting layout rotates accordingly in the direction of the arrow by 90° into the vertical or horizontal.

An enlarged display of the 3D view is possible in the full screen mode.

1. In the main view click or tap the button .
2. Main view, overview and Clipping layer view now cover the complete screen or the complete display.
2. In order to return to the normal view, click the button in the 3D view of the full screen .

In the 3D view it is possible to optically highlight the routing connections of the mounting layout in the selected layout space by representing electrical and mechanical items transparently. This display mode has three levels that can be set via the button .

Procedure

1. Click or tap the buttons to specify the transparency level as follows:

In the 3D view it is possible to have the complete device tag of an electrical item displayed in the mounting layout of the selected layout space.

Procedure

1. First zoom into the mounting layout, until the symbol of the object selection display changes from to .
2. Click or tap the desired electrical item.
   
3. At the top edge of the main view a blue label with the complete device tag of the item is displayed. Starting from the label a blue line points to the desired item in the mounting layout.
4. All routing connections connected to the item are highlighted in color. Accordingly the display in the connection list is reduced to exactly these routing connections.
3. To hide the label again, click the item again.

In the 3D view it is also possible to select one routing connection from all the routing connections displayed in the mounting layout and open it in the connection list for editing.

Procedure

1. First zoom into the mounting layout, until the symbol of the object selection display changes from to .
2. Click or tap the desired routing connection.
   
3. A preselection is shown. The outer edges of the selected routing connection are highlighted with a fine line in green and the connected source items and target items are highlighted in red.
3. Click or the tap the routing connection again.
4. The routing connection is highlighted in red and all routing connections of the mounting layout that are not selected are hidden. The highlighting in color of the target and source is retained.
5. The detailed view of the selected routing connection is automatically opened in the connection list for editing of the wiring status.
4. If you want to leave this display mode without editing the routing connection, click or tap the header of the detailed view.

When the wiring status of routing connections is being edited, the selected viewing angle and / or viewpoint on the mounting layout can be freezed in the 3D view. This prevents the selected routing connection from being displayed in the front view, as is the default, when the detailed view of the routing connection is opened.

Procedure

1. First set the desired viewing angle and / or viewpoint in the main view.
2. In the main view click or tap the button with the pushpin .
   
3. The button takes on the color red ().
3. Now open the detailed view of a routing connection in the connection list.
4. The routing connection is highlighted in the 3D view in red, whereas the viewpoint / viewing angle remains unchanged.
4. When you want to unfreeze, click or tap again on the button.