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Rotate about the scene floor

Rotate about the scene floor - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Rotate about the scene floor

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- [Instructor] In this example, let's talk about rotate about scene floor. Now most of the time when you hold down the middle mouse button, it allows you to spin your model around however you'd like. Now if you have a big assembly, or you just want something to rotate in a more logical fashion like you would if you were spinning it on a floor or on a surface or even like a turntable, we have the option of going up here to View, Modify, and then come down here to Rotate About Scene Floor. Click on that right there. Now if I hold down that middle mouse button, notice it just spins almost like it's on a turntable. You still have the option of kind of rotating around. It just operates a little bit differently than you did before. So it's trying to stay flat on that surface or on that scene floor when you rotate it around. All right, so that's our rotation there. Just by going left to right. And again if I come over…

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