From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design - Dimension
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Understanding the gizmo
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design - Dimension
Understanding the gizmo
- [Instructor] Okay let's create a document in Dimension and have a bit of a play in 3D space and learn about the gizmo, so we'll go ahead and click Create New at the top here. And you don't need to worry about anything about the interface or the screen just at the moment apart from this panel here which should say starter assets and should open by default. If not, there's a small icon down at the bottom left here to open that. And from the basic shapes we're just going to drag this cube out now notice that it's sort of blue under here as I'm dragging it on and I'm going to go about there, but it doesn't matter if you're not in exactly the same place. Now we're familiar with the X and Y axis of course from our 2D world and here this is using the objects X and Y axis at the moment. The X axis is red, the Y axis is green and the Z axis is blue, so RGB XYZ is an easy way to remember it. Now if I drag this down on the Y axis just…
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