3D drawing view mode lets you rotate a drawing view out of its plane so you can see components or edges obscured by other entities. The 3D drawing view causes temporary changes to a drawing view. It is used to make geometry selection in a drawing view easier.
When you rotate a drawing view in 3D drawing view mode, you can save the orientation for another model view to use in a drawing. 3D drawing view mode is particularly helpful when you want to select an obscured edge for the depth of a broken-out section view.
3D drawing view mode is not available for detail, broken, crop, empty, or detached views.
To manipulate a drawing view in 3D drawing view mode:
- With a drawing view selected, click 3D Drawing View
(View toolbar) or .
A pop-up toolbar appears with Rotate 
selected. If the drawing view contains annotations, the annotations are hidden when you rotate the view. You cannot insert annotations while in 3D drawing view mode.
- Use the tools on the pop-up toolbar to manipulate the drawing view as necessary.
- To create a new view orientation, click Save the view
or press the spacebar, then add a named view in the Orientation dialog box. This view orientation will be available under More views in the Model View PropertyManager the next time you insert a model view.
- Click Exit
in the pop-up toolbar.
The drawing view returns to its original orientation.
Click
in the pop-up toolbar to keep the modified orientation.
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Drawing view that has been rotated and zoomed in 3D drawing view mode. You can select components or edges that were hidden in the original drawing view.
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