Shorten View
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.
- Activate the
view you want and select the Shorten view
function. The Shortened view dialogue window is displayed. - Click Add under Direction of shortening. HiCAD automatically numbers shortening directions consecutively, displaying the number of the current direction in the Plane field. Three directions are possible.
- Define the axis of the shortening - either by identifying an edge or by specifying the start and end points of the axis.
- Define the shortening area by specifying two division points.
- Repeat steps 2 - 4 to define further shortenings in other directions.
- If you want to define a fixed point which will retain its original position when the shortened view is calculated, click the corresponding button and specify the desired fixed point.
- If desired, you can also limit the view. 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, click the View limitation > Add button in the dialogue window and draw the required rectangle.
- Click Preview to display the shortened view.
- If you want to apply the shortening, exit the dialogue window by choosing Create/Apply. If you want to alter the shortening, read the information provided in the chapter Process shortened view.
Clicking 
below the function icon opens a menu with processing functions for shortened views:
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Copy shortening Copies the shortening of another view to the active view. Identify the view the shortening of which you want to copy. |
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Delete shortening Revokes the shortening of a view, thus restoring it to an unshortened view. |
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Use this function to specify the settings for the representation of shortened views. |
Please note:
- Before HiCAD 2020, views were created with the representation type Shaded with/without edges or Quick HiddenLine / Quick HiddenGrey were always shown unshortened, even if the view was actually shortened. For drawings created with versions before HiCAD 2020 and containing such views, the Configuration Editor at Compatibility > Views allows you to define how to open these drawings.
The default setting is Show shortenings.
- 3-D dimensions the base points of which are located in an omitted area of a shortened view will not be displayed (a suppressible message will be displayed when such a dimension is found). Such dimensions cannot be represented in any way.
