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 Run a large display client with Showcase Viewer

Set up Showcase for group presentations or clustered ray tracing

Synchronize frame lock across a display cluster
 
                
               
             
             
            
            Split a scene into a display cluster
          
       
       
       
       
      
      This feature is only available
            for Autodesk Showcase Professional.
      You can use a cluster
         of computers to present your scene, with each computer attached
         to a monitor that shows one tile of a larger display. 
      
      
         NoteYou
            cannot use a display cluster to compare scenes in a side-by-side view.
         
       
      
      Present a scene on
         multiple displays
      
      
         - Open the scene on the host
            machine. 
            Then
               repeat the following steps for each of the other machines in the
               cluster:
             
- Start a hosted session on the host machine.
- Start the software on the cluster machine
            and open the scene.
         
- Select Options > Multi-Machine
               Display.
         
- The Multi-Machine Display window appears.
- Click the radio button This
               Showcase session displays only one tile of a larger image.
         
- Specify the number of tiles horizontally
            and vertically that make up the large screen.
            (Specify the same values for all machines.) A grid diagram appears, showing the number of
               tiles you specified in the horizontal and vertical directions. 
             
- Click on the grid diagram to specify
            which viewport screen is shown by the current machine.
            (This setting is determined
               by the physical location of the monitor connected to the machine.)
             
- Join the host session.
            
               NoteTo view the entire
                  scene again on the machine display, click on the button This
                     Showcase session displays the whole scene image. 
                
 
- After you repeat the previous steps for
            each of the machines in the cluster, repeat them again for the first
            (host) machine to complete the cluster display. 
         
Adjust the tiling
      To
         adjust how the screens overlap, touch, or are separated from each
         other, use these controls to specify the number of horizontal and
         vertical pixels in the gaps or overlaps in the fields provided.