Change between 2D and 3D

 From:  Michael Gibson
4497.3 In reply to 4497.1 
Hi Rudl - I'm not really familiar with TurboCAD. Does TurboCAD have the concept in it of a "split" view where you have a top, front, right, and 3D view all showing on the screen simultaneously?

If it doesn't have that and instead you're always working in just one big view, then you could get that same kind of behavior in MoI by always working in the 3D view.

In MoI when you use those view buttons on the bottom toolbar (the ones that say Split/3D/Top/Front/Right) you're not just switching one window's view around, you're actually switching to different active viewports, and when you're in split view you see all 4 viewports on the screen at the same time.

The 3D view is the one that allows the view to be rotated to any arbitrary view angle, so if you want to do view rotation then you will want to be working in that view and not in one of the 2D viewports. The 2D viewports are intentionally restricted to be 2D views only.

It is possible to do something like stay inside the 3D view and set up some shortcut keys that move the 3D view's viewing angle to some particular locations like looking straight down like the top view, etc... - working that way might resemble what you are used to in TurboCAD a bit more if it only works with a single viewport.

- Michael