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In The Machine is the official blog of the Inventor Product Management Team. It is a way for us to share Inventor news, interesting information about successful Inventor customers and partners as well as tips and tricks. From time to time we’ll also use the blog to solicit feedback from users via surveys. This blog is hosted by Garin Gardiner our Technical Marketing Manager.
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Friday's Quick Tip
April 17, 2009, 01:49 PM Garin Gardiner
For those of you that have used other 3D products (like AutoCAD) , you may be use to using Shift + Middle Mouse button to orbit the model. I have heard this many times over the last few years and in the latest version of Inventor you can now do this. In Inventor 2010 if you open a part or assembly and hold down the Shift key and middle mouse button, you will be able to orbit your model until you let up on the mouse button.
Enjoy the Friday tip!
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April 21, 2009 02:05 PM Brian Hall
Handy Tip Garin. Glad Autodesk added that. The next thing I would ask for in the navigation tools would be the ability to easily ("easily" being the operative word) re-center the center of rotation while using a 3D motion controller. I know that I could select the orbit tool off the navigation tool bar, but then I have to deselect it in order to select geometry.
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May 1, 2009 06:14 PM Scott Moyse
Yes i 2nd both of oyur comments brian. I had no idea about this tirck. what i dont understand if why the view rotation doesn't default to center. the only time you wouldn't want it to be is for fly bys or walkthroughs and thats a seperate command.
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June 11, 2009 04:01 AM Yudhistira Hasanudin
before 2010, you can use function key F4. press and hold the F4 + left mouse button to rotate/orbit the model.
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