{"id":300,"date":"2012-04-17T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/NX-Hints-and-Tips-view-a-model-from-inside-the-model\/ba-p\/334859"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:59:45","slug":"nx-hints-and-tips-view-a-model-from-inside-the-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/nx-hints-and-tips-view-a-model-from-inside-the-model\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Hints and Tips &#8211; view a model from inside the model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>We all know how to zoom, pan and rotate around models.But what if you want to view a model from inside the model?<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-9135 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/nx-hints-tips-view-model-model\/outside\/\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9135\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/04\/outside-150x106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" \/><\/A> <A rel=\"attachment wp-att-9118 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/nx-hints-tips-view-model-model\/inside\/\"><IMG class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9118\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/04\/inside-150x106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>You can use this methodto show a correct perspective view from inside a vehicle, a building, or a ship.<BR \/><BR \/>This technique uses two NX functions &#8211; creating a camera and setting the center of rotation.<BR \/><\/P><DIV><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4gsRrBKzv9k\"><\/IFRAME><\/DIV><BR \/>Remember that the camera location and perspective are stored with the camera definition, but not the Rotate Point.<BR \/><BR \/>Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how to zoom, pan and rotate around models.But what if you want to view a model from inside the model?             You can use this methodto show a correct perspective view f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}