Honor View Direction - Intergraph Smart 3D - Reference Data

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12.1 (2019)

Determines whether or not the software considers the view direction when updating a drawing. This setting is useful when placing an elevation coordinate label on a plan view.

  • Clear this option to ignore the view direction. In the following example, the view direction is East, and the Honor View Direction option is cleared.

    ignoreviewdirectiontrue2

    1 - Equipment object
    2 - Elevation label
    3 - Static control point

SHARED Tip To ensure that the system always horizontally orients elevation coordinate labels on the drawing, clear this option when updating a drawing view with an elevation looking direction.

  • Select this option to consider the view direction when updating the view. In the following example, the view direction is East, and the Honor View Direction option is selected. The software considers the view direction by default.

    ignoreviewdirectionfalse

    1 - Equipment object
    2 - Elevation label
    3 - Static control point

  • The geometric analyzer Aligned Objects (DrawingGALabelInline) uses the Honor View Direction property.

  • The following options allow you to manually edit the .xml file:

    • Type -1 if you want the software to ignore the view direction.

    • Type 0 if you want the software to consider the view direction.

  • Enclose either of the above values within the following .xml tags.

<ignoreViewDirection>0
</ignoreViewDirection>