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The 'Shortened View' Dialogue Window

View > Process, Shorten

This function enables you to shorten views - even several times and in different directions - and to delete and copy shortened views. For this, the Shortened view dialogue window is displayed. It contains the following options:

• Shortened view, Delete

Deletes all shortenings of the active view and displays them again in non-shortened format.

• Shortened view, Copy from view

Copies shortenings of an existing view to the active view.

• Plane

Displays the number of the current shortening direction.

• Shortening Direction, Remove

Removes all areas of the current shortening direction.

• Shortening Direction, Add

Defines a new shortening direction. HiCAD automatically numbers directions of shortening consecutively, displaying the number of the current direction in the Plane field.

• Shortening Direction, Fixed point

Enables you to specify a point which will retain its original position when the shortened view is calculated.

• Area, Remove

Removes individual areas of the current shortening direction.

• View limitation, Add

The so-called view limitation is a special type of the view shortening. Here, the areas outside a specified rectangle are hidden. To apply the view limitation, draw the required rectangle.

• Preview

Displays a preview of the shortened view.

(1) Original view of a steel engineering beam, (2) First shortening with three sub-areas, (3) Second shortening

Example of a view limitation

Use the Break line parameters function (Views > Edit > Shorten > ...) to change the appearance of break lines for shortened views and set further paramaters for the representation of the shortening. Possible are straight lines and zigzag lines.

Top: Shortened view with zigzag line; Bottom: With straight lines

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