change camera lens?

[Pitkru]

evening all!

just got back from Capri :) and have started drawing up an old staircase in Acad R14. my problem is how can i change the camera lens property in perspective view to accentuate the feeling of looking up/distance? i'd like to make it into a wideangle lens i think. have looked at the online help, but dont understand a thing about syntax etc! please help!

thanks in advance,

pitkru

[CADTutor]

Use the DVIEW command to construct your perspective and then use the Zoom option within DVIEW to set the focal length of the lens.

[gcp310]

Using the system varible LENSLENGTH, will tell you the lens length being used in the perspective drawing.

Just a note, acad14 was a cow to set up perspective views. 2000 onwards make it really easy.

Goodluck

G :lol:

[Pitkru]

aah thanks! yep, i didn't notice (under the zoom command) the command line saying camera length XXmm). must sit closer to the monitor next time.

gcp- what did u mean by using the system variable lenslength? how do you activate this. out of curiosity? thanks!

pitkru.

[gcp310]

the command lend lenght will tell you what the current lens length is after using the zoom in dview.

helpfull when you are camera matching within a photomontage