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.

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Hidden Faces/Visible faces

A toggle between hidden/visible face settings.

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Change Point of Origin

Allows you to establish a new origin point for the scene.

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Perspective/Plan

Toggle modes.

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Zoom in/Zoom out

Same function as the "3" and "." of the number pad shortcut keys.

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Trackball

Same function as the keyboard arrows. Allows you to turn around the scene.

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Move the Scene

Same function as the Option+keyboard arrows on Mac, or Control+keyboard arrows on PC. Pan the scene.

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Zoom Extent

Puts the entire scene contents into your viewport.

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Zoom window

Zoom a region.

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Point of view

Defines a point of view (a camera).

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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.

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Un-Hide

The reverse of Hide, this makes hidden objects visible again.

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Group

Group the selected objects.

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Ungroup

Ungroup the selected objects.

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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.

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Textures editor

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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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