10.20. Global View File Format

A Global View File is used to define a viewer location and orientation used by the Set view by camera orientation parameters in the transformation dialog.

The file is keyword delimited. The keywords can appear anywhere in the file. Any line that does not begin with a keyword is ignored.

First line must be EnSight View Setup File and conform to the capitalization as shown.

Second line is a version line and must begin with Version 1.0 with capitalization as shown.

VIEW_DIRECTION: Three space delimited floating point values indicating view direction.

FOCAL_POINT: Three space delimited floating point values indicating the focal point for the view.

DISTANCE_TO_VIEWER: A floating point value indicating the distance from the camera position to the focal point.

ROTATE_Z: A floating point value indicating the rotation angle about the view direction axis

Example 10.20: EnSight View Setup File

EnSight View Setup File 

Version 1.0 

VIEW_DIRECTION: 0.76851 0.57636 0.27787 

FOCAL_POINT: 15.000 20.000 27.500 

DISTANCE_TO_VIEWER: 79.750 

ROTATE_Z: 27.332