View Options: 3D UI Options

To access View Options, use the View > Options command, or click View Options on the View ribbon.

The 3D UI Options window appears.

The General tab lets you set defaults for the following view options:

• Stereo Mode (default, disabled) – This option is only applicable to systems with support for stereographic viewing for greater 3D realism.
• Drag Optimization (default, disabled)
• Show Ansys logo (default, enabled)
• Default Color Key height (default = 16)

When there is a selection option:

• Selection always visible (default, enabled)
• Set transparency of selected objects
• Set transparency of non-selected objects.

Default Rotation About options:

• Model Center
• Current Axis
• Screen Center (default)
• Cursor

When you select one of these as the default, the View > Rotate selection menu changes to show that the Alt+drag combination attaches to your selection.

Middle Mouse Button Drag behavior settings:

• Rotate (default)
• Pan
• Zoom

These settings change the behavior of the middle mouse button drag action.

In 2D plots, Pan is the default behavior for middle mouse button drag.

Gradual View Change settings:

• Animate
• Animation Duration

For operations such as Fit Selection, Fit All, and Zoom, these settings determine whether Electronics Desktop animates the transition between images and how smoothly it does so.

Enable Legacy View Orientations option:

• When selected, the view orientations scheme and the axis directions for named views follow the legacy conventions (software version 2023 R2 or older):
• When cleared, the view orientations scheme and the axis directions for named views follow the current view orientation scheme

The following view is a comparison of the two options:

The 3D Modeler Graphics tab lets you set the following options which are invoked for the next Project and design created.