From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
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Views in 3D - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
Views in 3D
- [Instructor] Unlike zooming and panning in two dimensions as we have so far, to start drawing in 3D we need to get comfortable navigating in 3D. There are a few tools to make this a little bit easier. The most prominent is the view cube, seen here in the upper right corner. As we hover over it, we can see different parts highlight to let us know which areas we can click on. I'm going to click on the bottom left corner here and we can see that visually we're actually spun around to get a more axonometric view. From here, we can click any corner or edge or face in order to rotate our view around. We can also click and drag the view cube to orbit around our view. Another option is to go to the View menu, go to Orbit, and find one of the preset orbit modes, namely Free Orbit or Constrained Orbit in order to orbit around our part. We can right click and click exit to return back to our normal panning and zooming. Another trick is if you hold the shift key on your keyboard and then do a…
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