Perspective Settings in NX5 1

The setting of Prespective views has been moved to the new 'Camera' function.

Now you can either edit the 'Camera' from an icon on the Visualization toolbar, or from the View -> Camera -> Capture and Edit... menu. Just make sure that if you're going from a parallel to a prespective view, that once the dialog is open that the first section is set to Prespective so that all of the Prespective specific options are made available.

While all of the old manual settings can be found in the various sections of the dialog, the real idea was to provide a dynamic tool, using on screen handles and a preview-window, to set your various view settings including distance from the observer to the point of interest. Also note that for people setting up photo-realistic images that if you would like to work in a true 'photographic' metaphor, when working in Prespective, you can now define your view setting using the most popular 35mm equivalent photographic lens ranging from 28mm to 300mm as well as customized, or 'zoom' lens, where you can dial in the magnification and/or field of view angle.

These 'Cameras' can be saved and activiated just like you did with 'Views' in the past. In fact, we are no longer using the term 'View' to describe a save visual setup, but rather are now calling it a 'Camera'. If you had any user defined views in the your legacy files, they will automatically be converted to 'Cameras' when opened in NX 5.


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
UGS Corp
Cypress, CA

Thanks for the info John. I'll give it a try.

Note that it appears that we did not remove the reference to Perspective from the documentation for Visualization Preferences. However, if you do a search on 'Camera', you will find the proper documentation on the new functionality.


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
UGS Corp
Cypress, CA