2012
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2012
- What Is New in This Release?
- How to Get Assistance
- Installation
- Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Installation Troubleshooting
- General Installation Issues
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network or network to stand-alone?
- When performing a Typical installation, what gets installed?
- Why should I specify the Project Folder and Site Folder?
- How do I share the Autodesk Navisworks settings on a site and project basis?
- When should I reinstall the product instead of repairing it?
- When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my system?
- Uninstall and Maintenance Issues
- General Installation Issues
- Quick Start
- Work with Files
- Explore Your Model
- Control Model Appearance and Render Quality
- Review Your Model
- Use Viewpoints
- Play Back Animations
- Work Within a Team
- Share Data
- TimeLiner Playback
- Reference
- Background Settings Dialog Box
- Collision Dialog Box
- Default Collision Dialog Box
- Edit Viewpoint Dialog Box
- File Options Dialog Box
- InfoCenter Settings Dialog Box
- Options Editor Dialog Box
- Glossary
- Index
Classic Navigation Modes and Tools
In the Classic user interface, there are nine navigation modes available from
the Navigation Mode toolbar to control how you move around the Scene
View: six camera-centric modes and three model-centric modes.
TIP You can use some of these classic navigation modes with the standard (ribbon)
user interface. The Options Editor allows you to select between old and new
modes.
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 (page 153) 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
CTRL 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 CTRL 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 CTRL 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.
DescriptionMode
Walk. Enables you to walk through the
model on a horizontal plane ensuring that
“up” is always “up”.
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