This navigation cube also serves as reference guide, letting you know what ‘side’ you are currently looking at. Click+hold and move your mouse to pivot your view. The navigation cube can be used to orbit around your workspace. You can reset your view to ‘home’ by clicking on the house looking icon. You can change this by clicking on the eject arrow icon thats on the top right, just below the navigation cube. By default your view may be set to Perspective.

I tend to keep my view set to Orthographic since it gives you a better representation of symmetrical geometry. You have the option to view your work in either Perspective or Orthographic. My favorite is “F! It’s probably my most used shortcut key. Using shortcut keys are a great way to quickly run functions and commands, saving you time! With Autodesk’s latest 1.4 update, they added some new shortcut keys and a lovely hotkey legend. Selecting an object and hitting the “F” key will reposition your perspective to the center of the select object(s), this is very handy when you want to quickly change your views orientation. You can however, avoid panning all together by simply scrolling to zoom in and out of areas to ‘pan’ across space. With a three button mouse or tablet, you can easily switch between the two using right-click and a middle button. If your using a trackpad, it may be a bit of a hassle to manually switch between the orbit and pan tools. When your first starting out learning 123D, it may seem a bit difficult to navigate around objects and space.

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