Navigation

This article talks about moving through and identifying aspects of a Pix4Dsurvey project.

Navigate in the 3D view

To pan, rotate, and zoom the 3D view:

• Left-click to pan the 3D view.
• Right-click to rotate the 3D view.
• Use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out on the 3D view.

To access the predefined views:

1. Click View in the menu bar.
2. Click:
   
   • Orthographic view (5) to switch to orthographic view.
   • Perspective view (6) to switch to perspective view.
   • Zoom to fit all content (Ctrl+1) to zoom out and view the entire scene.
   • Zoom to selection (Ctrl+2) to zoom to the selected object.
   • Top View (7) to view the scene from the top. The scene is zoomed out to display the entire scene.

3D view settings

Click to adjust the following settings in the 3D view:

• Point size (10 - default, 0.5 - 50), to change the point size.
• Obscured object visibility (0.5 - default, 0 - 1), to change the visibility of obscured objects.
   

  Example

  Value: 0 Only parts of objects that are not obscured by the point cloud are visible.

  Value: 0.5 (default) Objects that are obscured by the point cloud are not shown with full intensity.

  Value: 1 All objects are visible with the same intensity.

• Sky background (on - default), to toggle on/off the sky shared.
• Background color (black - default, grey, white), to change the background color.
  

Split the 3D view

Split the 3D view and view the scene from multiple angles simultaneously:

• Split Horizontal. To split the currently selected view horizontally.
• Split Vertical: To split the currently selected view vertically.
• Remove: To remove the currently selected view. 

To split the view, either right-click in the 3D view [1] or access the function in the View menu [2].

Navigate in the images

To change the display of an individual image:

• Hold Ctrl and left-click to pan on the image.
• Hold Ctrl and rotate the scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the image.

To change the display of all images:

• Use the slider to zoom in and out all the images at once.
• Click  to display images in a single column.
• Click  to display images in two columns.