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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2010
- Installation
- Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Prepare for Installation
- Install and Run Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2010
- Installation Troubleshooting
- General Installation Issues
- Uninstall and Maintenance Issues
- When adding or removing features, how can I tell what features get installed by default?
- Is it possible to change the installation folder when adding or removing features?
- When should I reinstall the product instead of a repair?
- Do I need my original disk to reinstall my software?
- When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my system?
- Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Quick Start
- Get a Whole-Project View
- Work with Files
- Explore Your Model
- Control Model Appearance and Render Quality
- Review Your Model
- Use Viewpoints and Sectioning Modes
- Play Back Animations
- Work Within a Team
- Share Data
- TimeLiner Playback
- Autodesk Navisworks Reference
- Glossary
- Index
In a camera-centric mode, the camera moves within the scene, whereas in a model-centric mode, model moves
inside the scene. For example, orbit and examine modes essentially do the same thing, except that orbit mode
moves the camera around the focal point and examine mode moves the model around the focal point.
NOTE Navigation modes and SteeringWheels are mutually exclusive, so activating navigation mode deactivates the
current SteeringWheel menu.
Movement in each mode is based on the keyboard arrow keys, the Shift and Control keys, and mouse drags. The
mouse wheel is also supported, allowing quick and easy zooming or tilting, depending on the current navigation
mode.
TIP Dragging with the left mouse button while holding down the Control key performs the same actions as dragging
with the middle mouse button, which is useful if you only have a two-button mouse.
The Shift and Control keys modify the movement, for example holding down Shift in walk mode speeds up
movement, and holding down Control in this mode, glides the camera left/right and up/down.
NOTE Gliding the camera is opposite to panning the model. Gliding is a camera-centric motion and panning is a
model-centric motion.
Quick Reference
DescriptionMode
Walk. Enables you to walk through the
model on a horizontal plane ensuring that
“up” is always “up”.
Look Around. Enables you to look around
the model from the current camera posi-
tion and gives the effect that you are
moving your head around.
Zoom. Enables you to zoom into and out
of the model. Cursor up zooms in and
cursor down zooms out.
Zoom to a Box. Enables you to drag a box
so that the contents of the box fill the view.
Pan. Enables you to pan the model rather
than the camera.
Orbit. Enables you to orbit the camera
around the model, ensuring that “up” is
always “up”. The camera always orbits
around the focal point of the model.
Examine. Enables you to rotate the model
about.
Fly. Enables you to fly around the model
like in a flight simulator.
Turntable. Enables you to spin the model
around the up vector. This navigation
mode behaves as though the model is sit-
ting on a turntable, ensuring that “up” is
always “up”.
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