From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Visualize
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Camera tools - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Visualize
Camera tools
- [Instructor] The camera tools button here allows you to manipulate your model. Go ahead and click on that to activate it. We only have five different modes that we can select from. The very first one is the rotate mode. Click on that one, and notice my cursor does switch to the rotate mode. Now I can left-mouse click and rotate the model around. If I hold down the middle-mouse button, it allows me to actually pan. If you scroll, it allows you to twist it a little bit, or change the camera view. And if you right-mouse click, and hold it down, it allows you to zoom in and zoom out. Now I can also grab those individual tools by selecting 'em here. So, pan. It allows me to do that, and then if I use the middle-mouse button, it does the zoom in, zoom out. And if I use the right-mouse button, it does the pan, so they'll change depending on which mode you happen to be in up here. Same thing with the zoom mode. Zoom in, zoom out with the left-mouse button. Come over here, and jump into…
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