3DVIA Composer: How to Set the Default View that an SMG Exported to PDF Opens To!

When exporting an SMG project to PDF, you may want to have a certain view (of many in the project) active by default when the PDF is opened.

Before exporting the file to the PDF format, the “Launch in View Mode” option needs to be turned on.

Go to File -> Properties -> Document Properties -> Project, enable the View Mode option.

Next, move the view that needs to be displayed to the top of the list in the Views tab (Drag and Drop).  You can now publish the PDF.

Also, if the Launch in View Mode option is turned off, it’s possible to set the animation at time zero to look like a view by simply dragging the view to time zero in the timeline.