3D controls
Orbit, pan, zoom, frame, and step through animation.
Mouse
- Orbit. Drag with the left mouse button.
- Pan. Drag with the right or middle button.
- Zoom. Scroll the mouse wheel.
- Frame the model. Press
Fto recentre. PressShift+Ffor the starting view. - Step between views. Hold
Altand drag with the middle button. - Follow the clip camera. Press
Shift+Cto look through the camera that came with the clip, when it has one. Moving the camera turns it off.
Touch
- Orbit. Drag with one finger.
- Pan. Drag with two fingers.
- Zoom. Pinch two fingers together or apart.
Axis views and projection
The numpad keys follow Blender: 1 front, 3 right, 7 top, and with Ctrl
the opposite side. Numpad 5 toggles between perspective and orthographic
projection.
Images
Drag to pan and scroll to zoom. Press F to fit the image to the view, or
choose 1:1 for actual size. On touch, one finger pans and a pinch zooms.
While a drawing tool is active, one finger draws and two fingers pan and zoom.
Animation and video
An animated model shows a clip selector and a timeline; a video shows the same
transport. Play, scrub, loop, and step a single frame at a time. The review
frame rate is chosen from the frame rate control on the timeline, and time is
shown as mm:ss:ff timecode or as a frame number. A comment left while a clip
is playing records the clip and the frame.
Inspect the model
- Press
Ito isolate the selected part of the model andSfor mesh selection. - Press
Uto open the UV inspector. - Press
Shift+Sto show model statistics such as triangle counts. - Press
Gto toggle the grid andShift+Athe axis gizmo.
Outliner
The outliner lists the parts of a 3D model as a tree, in a panel to the left of
the viewer. Press O, choose Outliner from the viewer menu, or use the
panel button in the header to show or hide it. Drag its edge to resize it. It
appears on wider screens only.
- Select. Click a part to select it, and it is outlined in the viewer, as
it would be if you clicked it there.
Ctrl-click adds or removes a part, andShift-click selects a range. Selecting a part in the viewer highlights it in the outliner. - Hide. Hover a part and click the eye to hide it. Hidden parts stay in the list, dimmed. The eye at the top hides or shows everything at once.
- Search. Type in the search field to find parts by name.
- Parts made of several materials list each material underneath, so a single piece can be selected on its own.
Parts hidden in the outliner are saved with a comment, the same as parts hidden in the viewer.