There are many ways to visualize your system and its components. A “view” is a “visualization” of a component. One way to view a component is directly in the side bar nav tree. In addition, you can right-click on an item and select one of its views to display in the view pane. You can see many different views of components. For example, a component that appears in the nav side bar tree may have a wire sheet view, a property sheet view, and a slot sheet view, that all display in the view pane as shown in Figure 23. Each component has a default view that appears whenever you activate a component (double-clicking, for example) without specifying a particular view.

See About the view pane for more information on the view pane. Refer to the Plugin Guides for a comprehensive list of views.