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Navigating the viewport using panning, zooming, and rotating

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Navigating the viewport using panning, zooming, and rotating

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In this video, we will learn how to navigate the view ports via panning, zooming and rotating. But two items to note, the ortho view ports can only pan and zoom while the perspective view port can do all three, panning, zooming, and rotating. Secondly, you can find these navigation skills surprisingly important since the interface can only show you a 2D view of your 3D model. It's critical to visualize how your design will look in the real world. I found the best way to visualize my work is to spend a lot of time in perspective, have it maximize and be constantly moving around. So a lot of these commands you'll find in multiple locations like usual. Start off right here at the top, here is your view, here is pan, zoom and rotate, along with keyboard shortcuts which will be very handy, you'll probably want to start using those pretty soon. Next up is the under the View Port Label. So, all of these have little pull down triangles. And there's your Pan, Zoom and Rotate again with…

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