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Figure 5.11
The View orientation
dialog box and the
View selector

You can access the View Selector independently from the View Orientation dialog box by
pressing Ctrl+spacebar or by accessing it from the Standard Views toolbar. The View Selector
graphic enables selection of various angled unnamed views, giving you a visual preview for
selection. The View Orientation dialog box contains the following controls:

Pushpin: This keeps the dialog box active.
New View: This creates a new custom-named view.
Update Standard Views: This sets the current view to be the new Front view; all other views
update relative to this change. This also updates any associated drawing views but does not
move any geometry or change plane orientation.
Reset Standard Views: This resets the standard views so that the Front view looks normal to
the Front plane (Plane1, XY plane).

Previous View (undo view change): You can access this tool by pressing the default hotkey
Shift+Ctrl+Z.
The Normal To option has four modes of operation:
First Mode: With nothing selected, Normal To will find the nearest orthogonal view.
Second Mode: Click a plane, planar face, or 2D sketch. When you click Normal To, the view
reorients normal to the selected plane, face, or sketch and zooms to fit the model in the view.
This method is shown in Figure 5.12.