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With SynthEyes’s flexible viewport layout manager, you can adjust the viewports to match how you want to work. In the main display, you can adjust the relative sizes of each viewport in an overall view, or create quick temporary layouts by changing the panes in an existing layout, but with the viewport layout manager, accessed through the Window menu, you can add whole new configurations with different numbers and types of viewports.
To add a new viewport configuration, do the following. Open the manager, and select an existing similar configuration in the drop-down list. Hit the Duplicate button, and give your new configuration a name.
If you created a new “Custom” layout in the main user interface by changing the panes, and you’d like to keep that layout for future use, you can give it a name here, so that it is not overwritten by your next “Custom” layout creation.
Tip : In the main user interface, the ‘7’ key automatically selects a layout called “My Layout” so you can reach it quickly if you use that name.
Inside the view manager, you can resize the viewports as in the main display, by dragging the borders (gutters). If you hold down shift while dragging a border, you disconnect that section of the border from the other sections in the same row or column. Try this on a quad viewport configuration and it will make sense.
If you double-click a viewport, you can change its type. You can split a viewport into two, either horizontally or vertically, by clicking in it and then the appropriate button,
or delete a viewport. After you delete a viewport, you should usually rearrange the remaining viewports to avoid leaving a hole in your screen.
When you are done, you can hit OK to return to the main window and use your new configuration. It will be available whenever you re-open the same scene file.
If you wish to save a set of configurations as preferences, for time you create a new SynthEyes file, reopen the Viewport Layout Manager, and click the Save All button.
If you need to delete a configuration, you can do that. But you should not delete the basic Camera, Perspective, etc layouts.
If you would like to return a scene file to your personal preferences, or even back to the factory defaults, click the Reset/Reload button and you can select which.
NOTE : Once you customize the viewport layouts, your custom layouts will continue to be used by future versions of SynthEyes. You might miss out on new layouts that use new viewport types. You might consider resetting the viewport settings to the Factory defaults from time to time to check for new views. You can use the Preferences as Script export to save and restore your layout.ini file as needed. At this time, there's no tool for identifying your specific changes. The layout.ini file is plain text, so you can use any text editor to examine it or take pieces of your old file and insert them into the latest factory-reset file.
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