The Control Panel of Amapi 3D provides fast access to common scene management tools.
The Scene Manager
A tree-graph utilitiy that helps you to manage the scene hierarchies. It also provides an intuitive way to use layers, textures and grouping.
Hidden Faces/Visible faces
A toggle between hidden/visible face settings.
Change Point of Origin
Allows you to establish a new origin point for the scene.
Perspective/Plan
Toggle modes.
Zoom in/Zoom out
Same function as the "3" and "." of the number pad shortcut keys.
TrackballSame function as the keyboard arrows. Allows you to turn around the scene.
Move the Scene
Same function as the Option+keyboard arrows on Mac, or Control+keyboard arrows on PC. Pan the scene.
Zoom Extent
Puts the entire scene contents into your viewport.
Zoom window
Zoom a region.
Point of view
Defines a point of view (a camera).
Hide Hide (do not render) the selected object. The object is still in the scene, just not rendered. This is helpful in working with complex scenes.
Un-Hide
The reverse of Hide, this makes hidden objects visible again.
Group
Group the selected objects.
Ungroup
Ungroup the selected objects.
Measure
Allows you to measure an object, or a distance, from any point of the scene. It is particularly useful for architectural models, CAD models, or for modeling to precise measurements.
Textures editor
Info
Give information of the current object and allows to clean coplanar faces, etc... The Info dialog can also be activated by double-clicking on the object.
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