About the Views tab

On the Views tab you can make the following settings:

  1. Graphics Engine Selection: There are two graphics engines available in CET Designer. One of the graphics engines requires more memory and capacity of your computer, but have several advantages. By clicking the Graphics Engine Selection button, you can check if your computer has enough capacity to utilize the advanced engine. Read more >>

  2. Select detail level displayed in the animated 3D view. Note that these options are only enabled when the simple graphics engine is in use. Read more >>

  3. Choose how much of the 3D view that should be displayed in realtime when moving the camera. This is a way of guaranteeing smooth movement when navigating in the program.

  4. Select or deselect the following checkboxes:

    - Enable realtime lights: enables constant updating of light across your visible 3D scene. Note that this operation is demanding on system resources. This checkbox is selected by default.

    - Display a frame around the selection in the 2D view: A purple frame will be displayed around selected components in the 2D view. This checkbox is selected by default.

    - Display a frame around the selection in the 3D view: A purple frame will be displayed around selected components in the 3D view. This checkbox is deselected by default.

    - Use view focus point: by deselecting this option CET Designer switches to pointer-based navigation. This means that any zooming in or out is centered on the position of the mouse pointer on your screen. The same goes for rotating your view. CET Designer will rotate the view around the object currently located underneath the pointer. This checkbox is deselected by default.

  5. Select or deselect the following checkboxes:

    - Show component preview below toolbox: previews a selected component below the toolbox. This checkbox is selected by default.  Read more >>

    - Show navigation bar in 3D view: shows or hides the 3D view navigation bar. This checkbox is selected by default.

  6. Select background color for your views. Click the button for the view you wish to change and select background color. Clicking the red X resets the background color to default (=white).

 

Note

  • If the Graphics Engine Selection button is not displayed, make sure the check box Allow hardware accelerated view graphics is selected. Find this setting by clicking the Extensions button in the top area of CET Designer and then choose Options from the Tools menu.

  • When the new graphics engine is activated, some check boxes will be gray.

 

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Figure 1: The Views tab in the CET Designer control panel.