Understanding Viewpoints
Viewpoints allow you to take snapshots of scenes in your model. This way, you can save information to use at a later date or return to a saved point of reference in the model. More important, viewpoints can contain information like redline markups, comments, tags, and measurements (see Chapter 6, “Documenting Your Project”). In addition, a saved viewpoint serves as a navigation aid in that it can remember when you change things like transparency, color, and item displays (hide/unhide); see Figure 5.1. Viewpoints are also retained or transferred when you produce an NWD file for use with Autodesk® Navisworks® 2013 Freedom.
Figure 5.1 Restoring a saved viewpoint with items hidden and materials applied
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