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<a xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" name="hj-top"> </a><table xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" class="table1" id="table11"><tr><td><table class="DocHeader"><tr><td class="DocHeader1" colspan="2"><h1>Viewport</h1></td></tr><tr><td class="DocHeader4" colspan="2"/></tr><tr><td class="DocHeader3" colspan="2"><table class="DocThemeIntro" id="table12"><tr><td class="Intro1Only"><p class="header"><p><span>The Viewport page lets you manage viewport settings.</span>
<p>The following topics are discussed:</p></p>
<ul><li><a href="#r-General" id="toc_rg" title="This section lets you manage general viewport settings.">
General</a></li><li><a href="#r-Outline" id="toc_rg" title="This section lets you manage outline settings.">Outline</a></li><li><a href="#r-Verticalaxis" id="toc_rg" title="This section lets you manage vertical axis settings.">Vertical axis</a></li><li><a href="#r-Customcameraviews" id="toc_rg" title="You can define up to four custom camera view orientations using a spherical coordinate system (polar angles) to define camera position.">Custom camera views</a></li></ul>
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General</h2>
<div xmlns=""><p><span>This section lets you manage general viewport settings.</span>
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<tbody xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e25 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Back culling</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e27 ">Enables back faces rendering. Back culling increases speed when activated. Back culling is disabled by default; some front faces might disappear when model faces are not well oriented.
<p xmlns="">Note:
		 This setting cannot be configured from Sync. 
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e25 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">BOM table</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e27 ">Displays the bill of materials (BOM) table in the viewport.
<p xmlns="">Note:
		 This setting cannot be configured from Sync. 
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e25 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Ground</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e27 ">Displays the ground actor, which adds realism to the scene.<p xmlns="">Note:
		 This setting cannot be configured from Sync. 
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e25 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Texture path</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e27 ">(Available when 
<span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Ground</span> is selected.) Specifies the ground image file path.<p xmlns="">Note:
		 This setting cannot be configured from Sync. 
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e25 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Ghost opacity</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e27 "><p xmlns="">Specifies the transparency for ghost rendering, from 0 (transparent) to 128 (translucent). 
<p>Note:
		 You cannot select ghosted actors in the viewport.
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e25 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Render mode</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e27 ">(Visible when a specific environment variable has been created.)<p xmlns="">Defines the render mode used to display actors in the viewport.</p><table xmlns="" class="Remark" id="table132"><tr><td class="Remark"><span class="run-in">Important:
				</span><ul xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><li>This setting is hidden by default. To make it visible, you must create an environment variable, <span xmlns="" class="filepath">DS_3DVC_OVERRIDE_RENDER_MODE</span>, and set its value to <span xmlns="" class="filepath">1</span>.</li>
<li>Composer documents generated from Sync do not contain this setting. Once a document is opened in Composer, the render mode defined in the (default) document properties will be applied when saving the file. </li>
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<p xmlns="">Note:
		 This setting cannot be configured from Sync. 
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="nested1" id="r-Outline"><p xmlns=""><map name="FPMap1"><area href="#hj-top" title="Back to Top" shape="rect" coords="416, 0, 435, 10"/></map><img border="0" src="../IconsReference/butix_top_wline.png" width="436" height="11" usemap="#FPMap1"/></p><h2 xmlns="" class="topictitle2">Outline</h2>
<div xmlns=""><p><span>This section lets you manage outline settings.</span>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e111 "><p xmlns="">Specifies the minimum angle between two face planes that defines a sharp-edge outline. Smaller values produce more lines.
<table class="Remark" id="table132"><tr><td class="Remark"><span class="run-in">Tip:
				</span> The 
<span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Outline</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Minimum angle</span></span> property (Properties pane) sets the outline angle per geometry actor.
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e109 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Same outline color for all actors</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e111 ">Sets the default outline color for all actors to the selected color. Set 
<span xmlns="" class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Outline</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Color</span></span> (Properties pane) to changes per-actor outline colors. To use outline colors based on actor colors, clear this option.
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="nested1" id="r-Verticalaxis"><p xmlns=""><map name="FPMap1"><area href="#hj-top" title="Back to Top" shape="rect" coords="416, 0, 435, 10"/></map><img border="0" src="../IconsReference/butix_top_wline.png" width="436" height="11" usemap="#FPMap1"/></p><h2 xmlns="" class="topictitle2">Vertical axis</h2>
<div xmlns=""><p><span>This section lets you manage vertical axis settings.</span>
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<tbody xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e154 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Vertical axis</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e156 ">Determines the default vertical axis after loading. The vertical axis is used to facilitate navigation and to position the ground. The vertical axis is saved in the Composer file. <p xmlns="">Note:
		 This setting cannot be configured from Sync. 
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<div xmlns=""><p><span>You can define up to four custom camera view orientations using a spherical coordinate system (polar angles) to define camera position. </span>
<p>Note that Composer uses the best camera rotation to keep verticality of the viewport.
</p></p>

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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e184 ">Specifies the name of the custom view, as listed under 
<span xmlns="" class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Home</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Navigate</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Align Camera <img src="../Icons3DVIA/I_CPSNavigateAlignmentOnFacet.png"/></span></span>.
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e182 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Theta 
Θ</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e184 ">Specifies the longitude angle (the angle in the X-Y plane about the Z axis).</td>
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Φ</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e184 ">Specifies the latitude angle (the elevation above or below the X-Y plane).</td>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e182 "><span xmlns="" class="uicontrol">Ortho</span></td>
<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" headers="d24931e184 ">Creates an orthogonal view. Orthogonal views eliminate the effect of distance from the viewpoint (actor sizes remain constant). To create a perspective view, clear this option.</td>
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