SteeringWheels is a convenient onscreen pallet of familiar navigation controls, as well as controls that may be new to you.
SteeringWheels provides:
- Zoom Change the camera distance from the model. Zoom direction can be reversed relative to mouse motion.
- Orbit Change the camera position around a pivot point.
- Pan Translate the camera across the screen.
- Center Redefine the orbit center point.
In addition, SteeringWheels adds some controls that are either new to Autodesk Inventor or noticeably different and improved in their behavior:
- Walk In Perspective mode, the ability to navigate through a model, much as you might walk through passages in a building.
- Look In Perspective mode, the ability to change your view angle without changing camera position, like pivoting a camera in any direction around a fixed point, or like moving your head from side to side or up and down.
- Up/Down The ability to translate the camera upwards or downwards, the direction defined as normal to the Top face of the ViewCube.
- Rewind The ability to quickly, graphically select any previous view or perspective through a series of thumbnails.
SteeringWheels follows the cursor. You can access this pallet of tools instantly, without having to move the cursor to an icon on the ribbon. Like the ViewCube, you can turn SteeringWheels on and off through the drop-down menu in the Navigate panel of the View tab. Also, like the ViewCube, SteeringWheels has options for tailoring the tool to your preferences.