Viewing a model in Alias

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When using the ViewCube, you have to move your cursor away from your geometry.

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So to stay more focused,

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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,

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or the middle mouse button to pan.

00:18

And then if you use the right mouse button to zoom,

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you'll find that moving the cursor in this diagonal

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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,

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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

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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.

Video 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.

Video quiz

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One way to tumble, or revolve, the view is to click and drag the model while pressing and holding which two keys?

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