Creating Interior Elevation Viewports

The Create Interior Elevation Viewport command creates as many as four interior elevation viewports of a room or area of a model at the same time. Interior elevation viewports are a kind of section viewport, but rather than creating a cross section of the area, the command creates section lines with extents defined by the walls that surround the interior-elevation marker. The drawing’s automatic coordination among the interior-elevation marker and the associated viewports is maintained as long as the viewports are kept on the same sheet layer or design layer on which they are originally created.

By default, the vertical extent of the section lines is determined by the bottom of the lowest wall and the top of the highest wall of all layers visible in a sheet layer viewport, or by the height of the active layer for a design layer viewport. By default the horizontal extent is determined by the nearest walls in the XY direction of each section line; if there is no wall in a direction, the extent will be determined by the bounding box of the nearest object. Section lines, which are not visible on the design layer, can be edited after creation by clicking Edit Section Lines from the Object Info palette or by double-clicking the interior-elevation marker.

Parameter	Description
Viewport Name	Enter a descriptive name for the viewport; this name must be unique in the document
Create on Layer	Select the sheet layer or design layer where the viewport will be created, or select New Sheet/Design Layer to create a layer.
Create Drawing Label	For sheet layer viewports, select this option to create a drawing label in the annotation space of the viewport
Drawing	Specify the directions to create interior elevation viewports. The interior-elevation marker detects its position in relation to the four quadrants in the screen plane, sweeping 45° from each XY direction (0°, 90°, 180° and 270°) corresponding to North, East, South, and West naming.
Number	The Number defaults to the next sequential drawing numbers available on the selected layer. These numbers must be unique on this layer; if an existing number falls within the selected range, the number is skipped. These numbers display on the interior-elevation marker associated with these viewports, as well as on any drawing label in the viewports’ annotations.
Title	Specifies a descriptive title for the interior elevation viewport. This name displays as the drawing title for any annotation objects (drawing labels, section markers, and sheet borders) that are added to the viewport. The drawing title name is limited to 63 characters. If Use Automatic Drawing Coordination is selected in document preferences, a change to this field for the viewport automatically changes the field for the viewport’s drawing label, and vice versa.
Layers	Specifies which design layers are visible in the viewport
Display Objects beyond Section Plane	When selected, shows objects beyond the section plane
Display Planar Objects	Select to display 2D planar objects
Display Flattened (viewports on design layers only)	When selected, the viewport always displays a “flattened” section view, similar to a section viewport on a sheet layer; deselect this option to display the current view selected for the design layer in the viewport
Classes	Specifies which classes are visible in the viewport
Scale	For sheet layer viewports, specifies the viewport scale relative to the page; select a scale, or choose Custom and enter a Custom Scale value
Rendering	For sheet layer viewports, specifies the render mode for the viewport; some modes enable the Render Settings button, to specify rendering parameters. After the viewport is created, foreground rendering can be added for a composite rendering effect; see Viewport Properties.
Render Settings	Available when the selected Rendering mode requires parameters to be set. See the following: ● Sketch settings: Applying Sketch Styles to Viewports ● OpenGL settings: OpenGL Options ● Custom Renderworks settings: Custom Renderworks Options ● Artistic Renderworks settings: Artistic Renderworks Options ● Hidden Line, Dashed Hidden Line, and Final Shaded Polygon settings: Line Render Options
RW Background	If a Renderworks mode is selected, select a Renderworks background from a library or the current file to use as a background for the viewport; see Applying Renderworks Backgrounds
Projection	Select the projection type for the viewport (see Projection)
Perspective Type	For Perspective projection, select the type of perspective, or choose Custom and specify the perspective distance
Perspective Dist	For custom perspectives, enter the perspective distance
Interior Elevation Settings	Click to open the Interior Elevation Settings dialog box (see Properties of Interior-Elevation Markers)

The interior-elevation marker displays on the design layer that was active when you created the viewports. It is updated to reflect which viewports were created, and to display with the selected settings. Associated viewports are placed on the specified sheet layer or design layer; moving individual viewports to a different layer breaks the association with the interior-elevation marker and the other viewports, and the relocated interior elevation viewport is converted to a section viewport.

Creating Interior Elevation Viewports

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Description