Set 3D view options

[Mickey]

Help.

I have a file I've been working on for years.

It's been saved as into different versions for a long time.

When I use to the tool "Set 3D view" to look at something my view is not what I'm expecting.

For example. If I make a new drawing and create  a wall, and I Set 3D view, and draw a line 10' away with 6' viewer, and look to at 6' I am essentially looking straight at the wall.

In this particular file when I set 3D view to 6' and look to 6' and draw a straight line, but it creates this window instead of a 3D environment, and I have to pull the edges of this window to get it where I'm expecting, and it never has the right perspective.

I can't figure out where to change this 3D view settings.

I tired searching for "Set 3D view options" but VW help is f'ing useless as it gives me 1700 results with everything that has the word SET and VIEW in it.

 

 

[Mickey]

I called tech support and got the answer.

A legacy feature called "crop perspective view" can be found in File/Document Settings/ Document Preferences / Display, and the very last check box at the bottom.

 

How did that get checked?

 

 

[Benson Shaw]

On 12/29/2023 at 2:51 PM, Mickey said:

How did that get checked?

Long ago it was checked by default. A guess - Perhaps in your version to version up-saving the file vwx “remembered” and switched to the default setting. Especially suspect would be one or other of these past few versions defining certain features as legacy (phase out).  

-B