View Settings Dialog Box

Get Current Window’s Settings: Click this button to overwrite the settings in this dialog box to correspond to the view currently in effect in the active (frontmost) window.
View Settings also opens whenever you use the Save View or Save as View commands.
ID: Choose a method for assigning an ID to this view: None, Custom (enter desired ID in adjoining text field), or By Project Map.
“By Project Map” means that the view will inherit the ID from its corresponding Viewpoint in the Project Map.
Name: Choose a method for assigning a name to this view: either Custom (enter desired name in adjoining text field), or By Project Map.
“By Project Map” means that the view will inherit its Name from its corresponding Viewpoint in the Project map.
Source: This field provides feedback on the view’s source viewpoint, or the file path of its source file.
Layer Combination: Choose a Layer Combination to be applied to this view.
Scale: Choose a Scale to be applied to this view.
Structure Display: Choose a Partial Structure Display setting for this view.
Pen Set: Choose a Pen Set to be used with this view.
Model View Options: Choose a Model View Option Combination to be applied to this view.
Graphic Override: Choose a Graphic Override Combination to be applied to this view.
Renovation Filter: Choose a Renovation Filter to be applied to this view.
Floor Plan Cut Plane Settings: Click this button to access the Floor Plan Cut Plane Settings dialog box. Any adjustments to these settings will be applied to this view only, not to the project as a whole.
Dimensions: Choose a Dimensioning standard from this pop-up menu. The standard you choose here will be applied to this view only, not to the project as a whole.
Zooming: Choose a zoom to save with this view:
Note: A view’s saved Zoom value includes the Pan and the Oriented View (rotation), if any.
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Current Zoom: The view will save the current zoom as part of its settings.
Note: Once a view is saved at “Current Zoom,” that setting is henceforth called Zoomed Area in this pop-up list.
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Fit in Window: whenever you open this view, or whenever drawings from this view are updated or published, they will be displayed to include the project window’s entire contents, subject to Layer status
Ignore zoom when opening this view: If this box is checked, then whenever you open this view, it will be displayed using the zoom value of the last opened ARCHICAD window (not the saved zoom of this view). However, the saved zoom level of this view will still be applied when you place this view as a Drawing, or publish it.
Note: A view’s saved Zoom value includes the Oriented View (rotation), if any.
Generate in: Choose whether to generate the 3D view in the 3D window or in the PhotoRendering window.
Redefine Image settings with current: Check this box if you want to overwrite the stored Image settings with the Image settings now in effect in the current (frontmost) window.
Note: Image settings are the following: 3D projection settings (including zooming and sun settings), filter elements in 3D, 3D window settings, 3D cutting planes, 3D cutaway and photo rendering settings.