3D Menu

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These menu commands are only available when the active pane is in 3D View. Access by right clicking anywhere on the drawing page.

To locate information about any part of this menu, Clickon

click on the area of interest.

These commands can also be accessed on the View ribbon tab.

Split

Allows you to work in ‘Plan View’ while still being able to see the effect in other views by splitting the screen - see Panes topic.

Copy 3D

To Clipboard :

This will allow you to copy the current 3D image to the clipboard as a bitmap. It can then be pasted into most image programs and saved or edited.

See tutorial on 3D Image for Print/Email.

To File :

Saves the current 3D image to a bitmap file or a 3D model file specified by an Open and Save dialog. It will be exported from the current view position and angle, so the resulting image will look exactly as it does on the screen. Bitmap files can be opened in virtually all image viewing or editing programs. The 3D model will be exported in the 3DS file format, which can then be used to create photo-realistic renders.

See the 3D Photoview Companion Models tutorial for details.

Full Screen

Keyboard Shortcut: F11

Expand the view to the entire screen. To return to normal view, use Keyboard Shortcut F11 or 'Close Full Screen' button.

Restore Hidden Items

This option is greyed out/unavailable until items have been selected and hidden, in which case a red tag will display the number of item hidden items.

Hide

Hide selected items/s from view by using the Hide 3D menu option (shown below) or using the Hide Selected ribbon command button.

Restore

To make all hidden items visible, click on either the...

Restore Hidden ribbon command button (see Display 3D Tools);
or
Restore Hidden Items menu option (shown below right);

this menu is accessed by right clicking on a blank area of the drawing page.

To restore/unhide individual items use the 3D View Filter Tree Controls on the Visibilities page of the 3D View Options [F9].

Click to view how to select multiple items with click and drag

When Select mouse mode is enabled, the selected cabinet/items are made visible by drawing an outline in wireframe on top in yellow.

Individual cabinet/items : The right click menu allows you to Edit Parts and/or Format selection.

Multiple cabinets/items : The right click menu allows you to Make Even and Align Bottoms.

See also the topic on Move in 3D which allows you to move a cabinet or group of cabinets a precise distance.

Keyboard Shortcut: F5

Refreshes the window. In this redraws the page and optionally recalculates the formulae within all visible cabinets, and all the sections they may import. When using a number of cabinets which have multiple imports, having everything rebuilt may take a while so only use this option when necessary.

Options

Keyboard Shortcut: F9

Allows for customisation of display options for the current view. See also View Options.