Orbit Behavior

The orbit behavior gives the appearance of rotating and flipping the scene, but in fact the mouse controls the position of the view by orbiting the view around the center of the scene.

All controls are provided by the mouse. Each mouse button generates a different type of motion while the button is pressed. The distance of the mouse cursor from the center of the canvas3D controls the speed of motion. The behavior of each button is described below with reference to the View coordinate system.

Mouse Button Description
Left Orbit to left, right, up, or down. Holding the left mouse button down while moving the mouse left and right changes the view position left and right of the center of the scene. Moving the mouse up and down moves the view position vertically around the center of the scene.
Right Translate. Holding the right mouse button down while moving the mouse left and right translates the view along the X axis.