Manage Views

Overview

Use the View Management button  via the Enscape User Interface (UI) to manage your Views.

You can create, rename and link a View to a Visual Setting Preset in Enscape itself. Deleting Views must be done in the Vectorworks’ Saved Views panel.

You can also mark a View as a Favorite Views, that will help you and your clients navigate quickly and easily to pre-selected viewpoints within your projects.

There is also an option to disable the Geometry Update when switching between Views.

To create a Favorite View you need to have first created a View. These Views can be either the actual Views from Vectorworks, which can be created in the CAD itself using its own native view creation methods, or by setting up your View in the Enscape viewport and then by clicking on the Enscape Create View button which is found in the View Management panel.

Create View

When you want to create a View using the Enscape ‘Create View‘ function, you will need to have the Enscape viewport running, as the function is embedded in the UI within the Enscape viewport.

Click here for a full overview of how to Create and Select a View in Enscape.

Once you do have Enscape open, move in the Enscape viewport to the View you would like to create and then click on the Create View button.

The Create View button in the View Management panel

The Create View button in the View Management panel

Once you have clicked the Create View button, you will be prompted to give that View a CAD View Name. Once you have named your view, you can also mark it as a Favorite View by clicking the heart symbol (so it turns from a blue outline to a solid blue color), and then you can click Create for that View to be listed in the View Management list under the respective projects category.

Name the View

Name the View

Rename / Mark as Favorite

Back in the View Management list, click the Edit button that will appear when mousing over a View to return to the Edit area, where you can click the blue heart to add / remove the View as a Favorite. You can also rename the View here, if desired.

The newly created View

The newly created View

Once done, click the Save button, which will return you to the View Management area where all the project’s Views are listed.

Mark the View as a Favorite

Mark the View as a Favorite

Update Views

To update a view with a new, click the Edit Button on the view you would like to update:

Edit View Button

Edit View Button

You should now see a section called Camera.  This is where you will have a section for the X, Y, Z , Orientation, Pitch and Yaw

*Pitch = degrees up and down

*Yaw is the degree in rotation

Once you start moving around in the Enscape window to the new desired position, you will see all these values updated.

Update Views Settings

Update Views Settings

*If you want to undo this, simply click the undo button and it will revert back to the original position.

Once you are happy with the new position of the view, simply click the Save Button at the bottom of the menu and the new changes will be reflected in your design application as well.

Camera Values Updated

Camera Values Updated

Geometry Update Setting

As mentioned at the top of this article, Enscape now provides a Geometry Update Setting option for Vectorworks users. This means that when disabled, geometry will not be reloaded each time you switch between Views.

Geometry Update Setting in the Upload Management dialog

Geometry Update Setting in the Upload Management dialog

Batch Rendering

To Batch Render a set of Views, whether marked as a Favorite or not, click the Batch Rendering button in the Enscape UI.

The Batch Rendering button

The Batch Rendering button

This will open the Batch Rendering list which shows all Views contained in a project. Select the Views you want to Batch Render by marking the checkbox next to each View name and click on the Render Images button.

If you have a Default Folder specified in the Visual SettingsOutput tab, then Enscape will automatically begin the batch render process. If this is not specified, then when you click the Render Image button, a dialog window will open asking you to select the location to save to.

If a View is connected to a Settings Preset, then the Settings Preset will override the global settings. This means you can potentially batch Render individual images out to specific locations.

If Automatic Naming is enabled in the Visual SettingsOutput tab, then each View will be appended with the name of that View. Again, if a View is linked to a Settings Preset, this may be applied individually.

Clicking the arrow next to the Render Images button reveals the Render Mono Panoramas and Render Stereo Panoramas buttons. These  will export panoramas from Views. These Panoramas then become available in the Upload Management – Panoramas dialog.

The Batch Rendering list

The Batch Rendering list

Deleting Views

If you want to delete a View then this must be done from within the Vectorworks Saved Views panel, by right clicking on the View to get the menu options.

Delete a View in Vectorworks

Delete a View in Vectorworks


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