The Navigation Cube and Home Button

The navigation cube is used to quickly jump between standard viewing orientations by clicking on one of its faces, edges or vertices. The Home icon restores the graphics view to a full frame isometric views, centred on the display. Both the Navigation Cube an Home button can be found at the top left-hand side of the MasterFrame graphics viewport.

The navigation cube allows you to jump to the following standard views: front, bottom, left, right, front and back. You can also mediate between standard elevations by clicking on the vertices of the cube.

Navigation using the Navigation Cube is done by using the mouse pointer and clicking on the face, edges of vertices of the cube. Clicking on a face will set the view of the model, or part of the model, to the standard view noted on the face of the cube. Clicking on the edge of the cube will navigate to the standard view on the face adjacent the selected edge. Clicking on a vertex will select a view such that the clicked on vertex becomes the vertex nearest the user.

The orientation of the view is not limited to full frame views and can therefore be used in conjunction with the view filters and standard or user defined frame views. When using the rotate function, the Navigation Cube will also rotate to maintain its orientation with the global system axes. The orientation of the text on the Navigation Cube faces will help identify the orientation of the model in the graphics view.

The navigation cube is also accompanied by the home button . Clicking this button will take you back to the standard full frame view, with the model centred on the screen.