User-Defined Views
Views provide the camera setting, grid, rendering, arrows, lighting, and transparency in the Graphics window. You can create and use several user-defined views to highlight and display the geometry in different ways. By default a View node is added to all space dimensions, except for 0D components. For any dimension, also right-click the View node to add Hide for Geometry nodes.
For 1D, 1D axisymmetric, 2D, and 2D axisymmetric models, an Axis () subnode is also added where you can set the axis coordinates and manual spacing. The View nodes and subnodes have information about a view, and you can also control the settings to display or hide geometry labels, direction arrows, and lock the axis. See Axis (2D and 2D Axisymmetric), Axis (1D and 1D Axisymmetric), and View (1D and 2D).
For 3D models, a Camera subnode () and three Directional Light nodes (), including default settings, are also added. The View node and subnodes have information about a view. The settings include (in addition to, for example, settings for displaying geometry labels and direction arrows) transparency, lighting sources, lighting attributes, and camera settings. See View (3D).
To display the Views node () under Results (), click the Show More Options button () and select Views in the Show More Options dialog box. You can then right-click that node to add extra 2D View () and 3D View () nodes. This can be useful, for example, when 2D axisymmetric revolved plots or 2D cut plane plots for 3D models are created or when you want to view the result plots showing the entire geometry and some zoomed-in part. The View node () also appears when you add a new view from the plot settings in 2D or 3D plot groups.
Right-click Definitions () and select View to create additional View nodes and then experiment by switching views to find the best way to illustrate a model. Views can be selected from the list of views () in the Graphics window toolbar.
To reset the View node settings and its subnodes to the defaults, right-click View and select Reset to Default ().