From the course: Learning CATIA v5

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- [Instructor] The previous lecture was about moving your data on screen the graphics window, using the mouse. Pan, rotate, translate, zoom, centering. Now, we have a tool bar, I'm going to bring this up, called View, that allows us to manipulate our view as well. Here, you can see the Fit All In icon, I can select on that, and it'll fit the part into the screen. Now I also have pan and rotate and the way these work, as well as a zoom in and out, is with the first mouse button. So if I click on the pan icon, I come out to the screen, hold my first mouse button down and move it. Now, you'll notice that once I release the mouse button, the pan no longer is active. I have to go back and click on it again. Same thing with a rotate if I click on rotate, I can do my rotate, once I'm done rotating, it deactivates the rotate. So you can see where these tools are useful, but to be truly proficient, you really need to get comfortable with using the mouse, you have your zoom in as well and zoom…

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