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determine where the clipping occurs. Tick marks correspond to the extents of the viewport, the lower tick is the near clipping plane, and the upper tick sets the far clipping plane. This does not affect the rendering to output, only the viewport display. Fast View Nth Faces When on, speeds screen redraw by displaying fewer faces. The Nth Faces spinner sets the number of faces that are displayed when the Fast View mode is active. For example, a setting of 3 displays every third face. Perspective User View group Field Of View Sets the field of view angle for a Perspective viewport. This spinner is not available when any other viewport type is active. You can change the Camera field of view in the Modify panel. Viewport Layout Views menu > Viewport Configuration > Viewport Configuration dialog > Layout tab Right-click a viewport label. > Configure > Viewport Configuration dialog > Layout tab You specify the division method of viewports, and assign specific types of views to each viewport on the Layout panel of the Viewport Configuration dialog. The layout is saved with the MAX scene file, so you can store different layouts in separate scene files. Load the file you want, then merge in the contents of other files to maintain the layout. TIP Through MAXScript, there are commands to set the current layout to any of the 14 available setups. You can also activate any viewport and set the view type. This enables you to create macros and custom user interface buttons to set any layout you choose. 7824 | Chapter 26 Customizing the User Interface