Graphical View Navigation

The graphical view provides a three-dimensional rendered view of everything in your job. To take advantage of this realistic view of your data, it’s important to navigate through it. Much like looking at the world through a camera lens, SA offers similar navigation controls.

Zoom. Its possible to zoom in or out. This can be accomplished by:

Autoscale Autoscale will zoom and center the view so that all visible objects are displayed in the graphical view at once.

Pan The view can be shifted from one side to another without zooming or rotating. This can be accomplished by:

To Center the View on a Point Middle-click anywhere in the graphical view.

Rotate The view can be rotated as follows:

View Rotation Center. Defines a pivot point for view rotations.

Selections include the following:

To Reverse the View Rotation Sense: By default, SA uses the Front of Sphere view rotation mode. When rotating in this mode, the rotation center is considered to be at the center of a sphere, while the cursor is “stuck to” the front of the sphere and spinning it. This rotation sense can be reversed to Back of Sphere mode in the User Options Machine Configuration tab. Change the Front of Sphere Mode setting.

To Spin the View: Hold down the Ctrl key and right-click-drag the mouse. This will rotate the graphics about the view perspective. This is a great way to straighten a tilted screen for rectangular selection purposes for example.