Std View Menu

Description

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The View menu is part of the Standard Menu in the FreeCAD Interface

The View menu provides functions related to the display of the model in the 3D view, as well as choosing which components of the main window and panels to show, zoom, etc...

Options

• Create new view

• Orthographic view

• Perspective view

• Fullscreen

• Standard views
  • Fit all
  • Fit selection
  • Axonometric
    • Isometric
    • Dimetric
    • Trimetric
  • Front
  • Top
  • Right
  • Rear
  • Bottom
  • Left
  • Rotate Left
  • Rotate Right

• Freeze display
  • Save views...
  • Load views...
  • Freeze view
  • Clear views

• Draw style
  • As is
  • Points
  • Wireframe
  • Hidden line
  • No shading
  • Shaded
  • Flat lines

• Bounding box introduced in version 0.19

• Stereo
  • Stereo red/cyan
  • Stereo quad buffer
  • Stereo interleaved Rows
  • Stereo interleaved Columns
  • Stereo Off
  • Issue camera position

• Zoom
  • Zoom In
  • Zoom Out
  • Box zoom

• Document window
  • Docked
  • Undocked
  • Fullscreen

• Toggle axis cross

• Clipping plane

• Texture mapping... see Macro Texture Objects and Texture in View

• Visibility
  • Toggle visibility
  • Show selection
  • Hide selection
  • Select visible objects
  • Toggle all objects
  • Show all objects
  • Hide all objects
  • Toggle selectability
  • Toggle measurement
  • Clear measurement

• Toggle visibility

• Toggle navigation/edit mode

• Appearance...

• Random color

• Workbench: select one of the base workbenches, or external workbenches installed in the system.

• Toolbars
  • File
  • Workbench
  • Macro
  • View
  • Structure

• Panels
  • Report view
  • Tree view
  • Property view
  • Selection view
  • Combo view
  • Python console
  • DAG view

• Tree view actions introduced in version 0.19
  • Sync view introduced in version 0.19
  • Sync selection introduced in version 0.19
  • Sync placement introduced in version 0.19
  • Pre-selection introduced in version 0.19
  • Record selection introduced in version 0.19
  • Single document
  • Multi document
  • Collapse/expand
  • Initiate dragging introduced in version 0.19
  • Go to selection introduced in version 0.19

• Status bar

Std Base

• File: New, Open, Close, Close All, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save All, Revert, Import, Export,Merge project, Project information, Print, Print preview, Export PDF, Recent files, Exit

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• Edit: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate selection, Refresh, Box selection, Box element selection, Select All, Delete, Send to Python Console, Placement, Transform, Alignment, Toggle Edit mode, Edit mode, Preferences

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• View:
  • Miscellaneous: Create new view, Orthographic view, Perspective view, Fullscreen, Bounding box, Toggle axis cross, Clipping plane, Texture mapping, Toggle navigation/Edit mode, Appearance, Random color, Workbench, Status bar
  • Standard views: Fit all, Fit selection, Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric, Home, Front, Top, Right, Rear, Bottom, Left, Rotate Left, Rotate Right
  • Freeze display: Save views, Load views, Freeze view, Clear views
  • Draw style: As is, Points, Wireframe, Hidden line, No shading, Shaded, Flat lines
  • Stereo: Stereo red/cyan, Stereo quad buffer, Stereo Interleaved Rows, Stereo Interleaved Columns, Stereo Off, Issue camera position
  • Zoom: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Box zoom
  • Document window: Docked, Undocked, Fullscreen
  • Visibility: Toggle visibility, Show selection, Hide selection, Select visible objects, Toggle all objects, Show all objects, Hide all objects, Toggle selectability, Toggle measurement, Clear measurement
  • Toolbars: File, Edit, Clipboard, Workbench, Macro, View, Structure, Help
  • Panels: Tree view, Property view, Selection view, Tasks, Python console, DAG view, Model, Report view
  • Link navigation: Go to linked object, Go to the deepest linked object, Select all links
  • Tree view actions: Sync view, Sync selection, Sync placement, Pre-selection, Record selection, Single document, Multi document, Collapse/Expand, Initiate dragging, Go to selection, Selection Back, Selection Forward

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• Tools: Edit parameters, Save image, Load image, Scene inspector, Dependency graph, Project utility, Measure distance, Add text document, View turntable, Units calculator, Customize, Addon manager

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• Macro: Macro recording, Macros, Recent macros, Execute macro, Attach to remote debugger, Debug macro, Stop debugging, Step over, Step into, Toggle breakpoint

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• Windows: Next, Previous, Tile, Cascade, Windows

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• Help: Help, FreeCAD Website, Donate, Users documentation, Python scripting documentation, Automatic Python modules documentation, FreeCAD Forum, FreeCAD FAQ, Report a bug, About FreeCAD, What's This

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• Structure and Link: Std Part, Std Group, Make link, Make sub-link, Replace with link, Unlink, Import links, Import all links

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base, Arch, Assembly, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub