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Transcript
00:02
When using the ViewCube, you have to move your cursor away from your geometry.
00:07
So to stay more focused,
00:08
you can alternatively just use the Shift and Alt keys on the keyboard
00:12
and then just click and drag with the left mouse button to tumble the view,
00:16
or the middle mouse button to pan.
00:18
And then if you use the right mouse button to zoom,
00:21
you'll find that moving the cursor in this diagonal
00:23
gives you the most responsive in and out movement.
00:27
And the focus point for that zoom is called the point of interest.
00:30
And it's shown by this manipulator when you hold down the Shift
00:33
and Alt.
00:35
And keeping those held down,
00:36
you can reposition it by just doing a click
00:38
and release on a different piece of the geometry.
00:41
And then this becomes the center for the zooming and the tumbling.
00:45
Back up here on the ViewCube,
00:47
we've got a Fit View icon
00:49
which you can use at any time to reframe the model into the center of the view.
00:53
Or you can just use the default hot key, which is F.
00:58
Sometimes you want to work in a flat 2D view.
01:00
So here on the ViewCube, you can choose one of these faces and get a side view
01:05
or use these arrows to switch to a top view
01:08
or to a back view.
01:10
And when this face is shown green and only two axes are shown here,
01:14
then it's a true 2D view.
01:17
But as soon as you tumble,
01:18
you're back in the perspective view with all three axes showing.
01:22
But if you prefer to work in a drawing board layout, then up here on the layouts menu,
01:26
you can have four window panes, for example, or two,
01:31
or switch to these single pane views.
01:33
And you can see that all of these have hotkeys assigned.
01:38
But often the easiest way to work is simply
01:40
to double-click on the perspective view title bar
01:43
and that switches to four planes with the perspective view up here.
01:47
And then these three are fixed 2D views which can be panned and zoomed
01:52
either synchronized like this,
01:55
or if I turn off the window sync on the Layouts menu,
01:58
I can view them independently.
02:01
But I can't tumble these 2D views.
02:04
So I can just double-click again on the title bar
02:07
up here to toggle back to the full size perspective view.
02:11
Or I can just use the F10 hotkey to toggle between layouts.
00:02
When using the ViewCube, you have to move your cursor away from your geometry.
00:07
So to stay more focused,
00:08
you can alternatively just use the Shift and Alt keys on the keyboard
00:12
and then just click and drag with the left mouse button to tumble the view,
00:16
or the middle mouse button to pan.
00:18
And then if you use the right mouse button to zoom,
00:21
you'll find that moving the cursor in this diagonal
00:23
gives you the most responsive in and out movement.
00:27
And the focus point for that zoom is called the point of interest.
00:30
And it's shown by this manipulator when you hold down the Shift
00:33
and Alt.
00:35
And keeping those held down,
00:36
you can reposition it by just doing a click
00:38
and release on a different piece of the geometry.
00:41
And then this becomes the center for the zooming and the tumbling.
00:45
Back up here on the ViewCube,
00:47
we've got a Fit View icon
00:49
which you can use at any time to reframe the model into the center of the view.
00:53
Or you can just use the default hot key, which is F.
00:58
Sometimes you want to work in a flat 2D view.
01:00
So here on the ViewCube, you can choose one of these faces and get a side view
01:05
or use these arrows to switch to a top view
01:08
or to a back view.
01:10
And when this face is shown green and only two axes are shown here,
01:14
then it's a true 2D view.
01:17
But as soon as you tumble,
01:18
you're back in the perspective view with all three axes showing.
01:22
But if you prefer to work in a drawing board layout, then up here on the layouts menu,
01:26
you can have four window panes, for example, or two,
01:31
or switch to these single pane views.
01:33
And you can see that all of these have hotkeys assigned.
01:38
But often the easiest way to work is simply
01:40
to double-click on the perspective view title bar
01:43
and that switches to four planes with the perspective view up here.
01:47
And then these three are fixed 2D views which can be panned and zoomed
01:52
either synchronized like this,
01:55
or if I turn off the window sync on the Layouts menu,
01:58
I can view them independently.
02:01
But I can't tumble these 2D views.
02:04
So I can just double-click again on the title bar
02:07
up here to toggle back to the full size perspective view.
02:11
Or I can just use the F10 hotkey to toggle between layouts.
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