From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training
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Navigating in the 3D workspace - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training
Navigating in the 3D workspace
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to focus on navigating in the 3D environment. So the first thing I want to do is open up a file. So I'm going to go up to the top of the screen click on Open, and notice that I've got Desktop, Exercise Files, chapter one and I'm going to open file 1.2. Go ahead and click on Open. All right, so the basics. If I want to rotate this model around you need to have a three-button mouse. If you hold down the middle mouse button, or the scroll wheel, so you can actually push down on that scroll wheel. That'll allow you to rotate the model right and left and up and down. Now, if you actually scroll, that'll zoom in and zoom out. And then if you hold down Shift on your keyboard what that'll do is also zoom in and zoom out, or you can hold down Control and then push down on that middle mouse button, and that'll pan your model back and forth or up and down. So those are your…
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