Basic Settings for Views (3-D)

Arrangement

Default views

Defines whether standard views are arranged according to the German or American standard.

View All

Specifies whether View all is automatically activated after rotating a view or creating axonometries.

Overlaps

Hidden edges

Defines the colour and line type for the hidden line display. The layer is normally determined automatically by HiCAD. This depends on the part to which the corresponding edge belongs. You can, however, also pre-set a fixed layer number.

Overlap free edges ?

Defines whether free edges are to be hidden in the hidden line display.

Overlap middle lines/centre cross ?

Defines whether centre lines and coordinates are to be hidden in the hidden line display.

Steel Eng. - cover axes ?

Defines whether steel engineering axes and schematically represented bolt axes are to be hidden in the hidden line display.

List views

Defines whether newly constructed parts are also to be displayed in list views that are currently not active.

Sectional views

Defines colour, line type and layer of section paths in sectional views.

Shortened views

Defines the spacing of the segments as well as colour, line type and layer for reduced views.

Visualisation

Edges have an internal ID, which identifies them as a standard or tangential edge, a mesh edge in n-, m-direction*, a mesh diagonal or polyhedral lateral edge. This enables edges to be show/hidden via the limiting angle or by means of individual identification, depending on type. (* n and m here are the natural parameter directions of a surface, e.g. latitude and longitude of a sphere.)