AREA

The buttons next to the AREA text allow you to change the display area that DeskArtes uses to view the objects.

Selecting AREA: Whole makes the entire graphics window the display area.

The AREA: Four option divides the graphics window into four quarters, called viewports. In this case, different types of objects may be handled in the separate viewports.

If a projection curve is selected, it is displayed in the corresponding (X, Y or Z) display part, while the other quarters keep their contents. A section curve is displayed in a viewport quarter which is not occupied by the primary or secondary projections.

All 3D objects are displayed simultaneously in the X, Y, Z and 3D view quarters of the display, possibly erasing the 2D curves previously shown there. A title text is displayed in each viewport quarter, showing its viewing direction.

Each quarter can be separately zoomed and panned with the corresponding DISPLAY menu commands, or used for graphical picking of objects.

Furthermore, the Area:Four option is fully integrated with scene and surface editing, 3D curve input and editing, as well as with 3D transformations. All editing changes are shown in the four viewports simultaneously.