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               <p class="para_td">Overview</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('vehiclepkg/dview_proc.html');return(false);">How To</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ico_t_direct_field_of_view.gif" border="0">You can use this option early in the development process of a vehicle to calculate the ambinocular vision regions of an individual driver or a group of drivers. This lets you check to see if the vision angles are within an acceptable range. 
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      <p class="para_topic">You can limit the vision region by either defining the eye/head rotation or by specifying an aperture. The regions are dependent on the eye points or an eyellipse (the eyellipse takes into account the vehicle type and the driver population percentile).</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Output is a DIRECT_FIELD_OF_VIEW feature. Since it is a feature, you can perform edit, copy, suppress, unsuppress, information and delete operations on it.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">The Direct Field of View output meets the recommendations of SAE J1050a.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">Tools&rarr; Vehicle Design Automation&rarr; General Packaging&rarr; Direct Field of View</p>
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