Controls

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Interface guide
Visualisation Controls

Use the visualisation controls to navigate the model, change the viewing direction, adjust object display styles, and manage selected slices or 3D models in the project.

Manage Items

Hide selected shapes from the visualiser or delete selected items from the project.

Control Position

Fit, zoom, pan, rotate, or flip the model to a standard viewing direction.

Change Style

Display selected objects as wireframe or shaded geometry, and adjust colour or transparency.

Navigate the view

Keyboard and Mouse Navigation

Use these controls to move the camera without changing model geometry.

Click inside the visualiser before using the navigation keys. Property fields retain their normal arrow-key editing behaviour.

ActionControlBehaviour
PanArrow keysMove the view left, right, up, or down. Hold an arrow to continue panning.
Change viewing directionCtrl + arrow keysMove to an adjacent view-cube face in 90° steps. From an oblique view, the first press snaps to a cube face. Each press makes one change; holding the keys does not repeat it.
Free rotationHold the right mouse button briefly, then dragHold for about 350 ms before dragging to rotate the view freely.
Immediate free rotationCtrl + right-button dragRotate immediately, without the hold delay.
Context menuQuick right-clickOpen the context menu when the button is released.

These controls change the view only, not the position or orientation of model geometry.

Press Esc to cancel an active right-button gesture. Moving focus away from the visualiser also cancels it.

Delete / hide items

Slices and 3D Models

These controls are used to hide selected shapes in the visualiser or delete selected items from the project.

Hide selected shape
Hide Selected Shape

Hides the selected shape in the visualiser without deleting it from the project.

Delete selected item
Delete Selected Item

Deletes the selected item from the project.

Deleting an item removes it from the project structure. Confirm that the selected item is no longer required.

Visualisation position

Fit, Zoom, Pan, Flip and Rotate

These controls are used to move around the visualiser and change the view direction.

Fit visualiser content to screen
Fit Visualiser Content to Screen

Fits the visualiser content to the available screen area.

Dynamic zooming
Dynamic Zooming

Press the left mouse button, then move the pointer left or right to zoom in or out.

Alternatively, hold Ctrl and drag with the left mouse button.

Dynamic panning
Dynamic Panning

Select the Pan toolbar tool, then drag with the left mouse button to pan around the visualiser.

Alternatively, drag with the middle mouse button or use the arrow keys while the visualiser has focus. Hold an arrow to continue panning.

Flip shape to front
Flip Shape to Front

Changes the visualiser to the front viewing direction.

Flip shape to back
Flip Shape to Back

Changes the visualiser to the back viewing direction.

Flip shape to top
Flip Shape to Top

Changes the visualiser to the top viewing direction.

Flip shape to bottom
Flip Shape to Bottom

Changes the visualiser to the bottom viewing direction.

Flip shape to left
Flip Shape to Left

Changes the visualiser to the left viewing direction.

Flip shape to right
Flip Shape to Right

Changes the visualiser to the right viewing direction.

Dynamic rotation
Dynamic Rotation

Select the Rotate toolbar tool, then drag with the left mouse button to rotate the view.

Alternatively, hold the right mouse button briefly, then drag for free rotation. Use Ctrl + right-button drag to rotate immediately, or Ctrl + arrows to move between cube faces.

Visualisation style

Wireframe, Shading, Colour and Transparency

These controls change the appearance of selected objects in the visualiser.

Display selected as wireframe
Display Selected as Wireframe

Displays the selected object as wireframe geometry.

Display selected with shading
Display Selected with Shading

Displays the selected object with shaded solid geometry.

Change colour
Change Colour

Changes the display colour of the selected object.

Change transparency
Change Transparency

Adjusts the transparency of the selected object.

Hide selected shape
Hide Selected Shape

Hides the selected shape in the visualiser.

Delete selected item
Delete Selected Item

Deletes the selected item from the project.

Use transparency together with wireframe display when checking internal stratigraphy, overlapping geometry, fault surfaces, or trimmed cross-section boundaries.

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