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               <p class="para_td">Overview</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">Cameras capture the parameters of the current work view. You can have multiple cameras associated with a view, but only one can be active in a view at a time. Cameras also include some parameters used only for High Quality Images.  These are the parameters in the Lens Flare and Depth of Field groups.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Control the way you see your model by using a camera to:  </p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Cameras are most useful when you want to create high quality images of your model from different positions with different viewing parameters, and special effects.  </p>
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      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">View</b>&rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Camera</b>. The editing commands and buttons are on the Visualization toolbar. Cameras also appear in the <b class="uiTerm">Part Navigator</b>. 
      </p><a class="endOfDocLinks" href="vie_vis_camera_menu_op.html">Camera menu</a><br><a class="endOfDocLinks" href="vie_vis_create_camera_p.html">Create a Camera</a><br><a class="endOfDocLinks" href="vie_vis_edit_camera_p.html">Edit a Camera</a><br><a class="endOfDocLinks" href="vie_vis_change_camera_p.html">Change the active camera in a view</a><br><a class="endOfDocLinks" href="vie_vis_camera_op.html">Camera options</a><br></body>
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