View Tab

Contains settings relating to drawing and the Figure Window display.

Preferences

Antialiasing

Select the level of antialiasing to use in the Figure Window for processing wireframes.
4x is selected by default on Macs with Retina displays. If drawing speed becomes significantly slow when using very high-resolution displays, such as the iMac with Retina 5K display, changing this setting to 2x or even None will often improve performance.

See also Figure Window Antialiasing

Window Shadows / Transparency (Mac)

Open windows cast shadows and window transparency is used.

Enable Polygonstipple

Dotted lines are displayed for the camera line of sight or for guidelines when creating line objects.

Texture Size

Specifies the texture size for objects drawn in the Figure Window. Choose between 128, 256, 512, and 1024.

Use NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ (Win)

NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ is used to display Stereo Vision in the Figure Window.

Important Stereo Vision with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ or 3D Vision™ PRO require the separate NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ or 3D Vision™ PRO and a Quadro GPU card.

Update Background Texture when scene file is opened

Specifies how to display the background of scenes saved when the Figure Window's Show Background option is selected.
When selected, the background is shown automatically when the scene is opened.
When unselected, the background is not displayed when the scene is opened. To show the background, select Update Background from the View Display pop-up menu.

Caution When selected, depending on the background data, updating the background may take time.

Manipulator Settings

Global Scale

Increases or decreases the scale of the whole manipulator.

Handle Scale

Increases or decreases the interface scale of Move (arrow), Scale (box), and Rotate (arc).

Figure Viewport Settings

Show Axis Control

When selected, shows the Work Plane Controller in the 3 views and Perspective View.

Default

Specifies the default work plane settings for the Perspective View. Choose between YZ, XZ, XY, Screen, and Auto.

Show Viewport Ruler

When selected, displays a side ruler in each viewport.

Show Divider

When selected, displays a dividing line between the viewports.

Enable Transparency in Viewport Menu Bar

When selected, the Viewport Menu Bar (showing the viewport name and navigation tools) is transparent.

Enable Padding Space Under Viewport Menu Bar

When selected, a few pixels of space are added below the Viewport Menu Bar.