The numeric keys, 1 to 6, for the six standard views, top, front, right, bottom, back and left The arrow keys to shift (pan) the view left/right and up/down.

CTRL + and CTRL - to zoom in and zoom out.The following table shows the principal available modes: ModeĪlternatively, some keyboard controls are always available, no matter the navigation mode:

Navigation modes are accessed from the Preferences screen, or directly by right-clicking anywhere on the 3D view:Įach of these modes attributes different mouse buttons, or mouse + keyboard combinations, or mouse gestures, to these four operations. FreeCAD can use several navigation modes, which determine how the three basic view manipulation operations (pan, rotate and zoom) are done, as well as how to select objects on the screen. Navigating in the FreeCAD 3D view can be done with a mouse, a Space Navigator device, the keyboard, a touchpad, or a combination of those. That camera can be moved left, right, up and down (pan), rotated around what it is looking at (rotate) and brought closer or further from the scene (zoom). You can look at that scene from any angle, like if you were holding a camera. For example, a point with coordinates (2,3,1) will lie at 2 units on the X axis, 3 units on the Y axis, and 1 unit on the Z axis: In the lower right corner of the FreeCAD view, you can always see from where you are viewing the scene:Įvery point of every object that exists in that space can be located by its (x,y,z) coordinates. If you look at your scene from above, conventionally, the increasing, positive, X axis points to the right, the positive Y axis to the back, and the positive Z axis upwards. It has an origin point and three axes: X, Y and Z.

The FreeCAD 3D space is an euclidian space. If not, you can safely skip this section. If this is your first contact with a 3D application, you will need to grab some concepts first. Navigating in the 3D view A word about the 3D space

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