Overview

BricsCAD provides various tools to control the display and view orientation of your drawing.

These tools can be found either in the View menu or the View toolbar or both.

View toolbar and its flyouts

Look From toolbar

Icon	Tool name	Command	Description
	Redraw	REDRAW	Refreshes the screen display in the current viewport.
	Redraw All	REDRAWALL	Refreshes the screen display in all open viewports.
	Regenerate	REGEN	Recalculates the screen display in the current viewport.
	Regenerate All	REGENALL	Recalculates the screen display in all open viewports.
	Update Fields	UPDATEFIELD	Updates the selected fields.
	Real Time Pan	RTPAN	Pans the view dynamically.
	Pan	PAN	Pans the view.
	Real Time Zoom	RTZOOM	Zooms in/out dynamically.
	Zoom In	ZOOM + I(*)	Zooms in on the center of the window by a factor of 2.
	Zoom Out	ZOOM + O(*)	Zooms out from the center of the window by a factor of 1/2.
	Zoom Extents	ZOOM + E(*)	Displays all the entities in the drawing (referred to as the drawing extents).
	Zoom Window	ZOOM + W(*)	You are prompted to pick two corners of a box on the existing view in order to enlarge that area to fill the display.
	Zoom Previous	ZOOM + P(*)	Restores the displayed view prior to the current one.
	Zoom All	ZOOM + A(*)	Displays the whole drawing as far as its drawing limits or drawing extents (whichever is the greater of the two).
	Zoom Left	ZOOM + L(*)	Pick the lower left corner of the next view, then specify the magnification factor or the view height.
	Zoom Center	ZOOM + C(*)	Pick the center of the next view, then specify the magnification factor or the view height.
	Zoom Right	ZOOM + R(*)	Pick the upper right corner of the next view, then specify the magnification factor or the view height.
	Look Around	RTLOOK	Look around in a 3D scene.
	Look Up and Down	RTUPDOWN	Move up / down and left / right in a 3D scene.
	Walk	RTWALK	Walk left / right and forward / backward in a 3D scene.
	Real-Time Constrained Sphere	RTROT	Rotates the view dynamically in 3D. Moving the mouse horizontally (parallel to the screen x-axis) rotates the view about the world z-axis. Moving the mouse vertically (parallel to the screen y-axis) rotates the screen x-axis.
	Real-Time Sphere Center	RTROTCTR	Rotates the view dynamically in 3D about a user-defined center point. Behaves like RTROT.
	Real-Time Free Sphere	RTROTF	Rotates the view dynamically in 3D. Moving the mouse horizontally (parallel to the screen x-axis) rotates the view about the screen y-axis. Moving the mouse vertically (parallel to the screen y-axis) rotates the view about the screen x-axis.
	Real-Time X	RTROTX	Rotates the view dynamically about the screen x-axis.
	Real-Time Y	RTROTY	Rotates the view dynamically about the screen y-axis.
	Real-Time Z	RTROTZ	Rotates the view dynamically about the screen z-axis.
	Set View Point	DDVPOINT	Opens the Preset Viewpoints dialog.
	Plan View	PLAN	Restores the plan view with respect to the WCS, the current UCS or a saved UCS.
	Define View	DVIEW	Defines parallel and visual perspective views.
	Save/Restore view	VIEW	Saves and restores named views.
	Viewports	VPORTS	Manages viewports in model space.
	Paper Space Views	MVIEW	Creates viewports in paper space.
	Generate Drafting Views	BMGENDRAFT	Generates associative orthographic and standard isometric views of a 3D solid model in a paper space layout.
	Generate Section	BMGENSECTION	Creates a cross section view based on a standard drafting view generated by the BmGenDraft command in a paper space layout.
	2D Context	2DCONTEXT	Switches the drawing to a 2D drafting context.
	3D Context	3DCONTEXT	Switches the drawing to a 3D modeling context.

(*) <command> <option>: type zoom followed by Enter, then type the command option letter, followed by Enter.