9.5.2

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Although at rst it may seem like you’re selecting parts of the smoothed object, it is in fact the cage
elements that will be scaled, extruded and so on.
Some tools such as Close Polygon Hole do not support this model. These
tools will temporarily switch over to the conventional mode. The Use Isoline
Editing mode will become active again as soon as you switch over to a tool
that supports the mode.
Show Axis
This mode simply controls whether the axis — be it the object axis or the modeling axis — is displayed
for the selected objects and object elements.
Camera
With this tool you work with the camera that is being used in the active viewport. All subsequent
actions affect the camera in this viewport. In the planar viewports (XY, ZY, XZ) you can move and
magnify the displayed area; in the 3D viewport you can change the Editor camera or the Object
camera. You can move in the following ways.
Keyboard short-cuts
Action Result
 1 + drag Move camera left/right/up/down.
 2 + drag Move camera forwards/backwards.
 2 + drag Zoom by moving camera.
 2 + right- drag (Windows)
 2 + command-drag (Mac OS)
Zoom by changing focal length.
 3 + drag Rotate camera (X and Y axes)
 3 + right- drag (Windows)
 3 + command-drag (Mac OS)
Rotate camera (Z-axis)