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Establishing a starting view

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Establishing a starting view

- A very common best practice to do when building your project template is to establish a starting view. A starting view is simply a view that will always display whenever the project is opened. It can be very frustrating if the project team if they open up a project and they have to wait 20 minutes while a big, detailed, three-dimensional view that is fully shaded and rendered has to load and regenerate on screen. With a starting view, you can pick a very simple view like a drafting view, or some other really low polygon count view, and have that load up, so the project loads a little bit more quickly, and then let the individual members of the project team decide which view they want to open from there. So setting up a starting view is pretty easy, the first thing you need to do is decide what view you wanna use as the starting view. So if I go to the manage tab, on the manage project, I can click the starting view command. Now here you will just get a list of all the views in your…

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