You use the Axis menu to position, rotate, scale, and shear an axis. The Object menu provides tabs so that you can see or
modify the parameters of the selected axis. For information about selecting objects and navigating the schematic, see Populating Menu Tabs of Selected Objects.
The Axis controls are described as follows.
- Position X, Y, and Z fields
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Translate the selected axis.
- Rotation X, Y, and Z fields
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Rotate the selected axis.
- Scaling X, Y, and Z fields
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Change the size of the axis.
- Prop Scale button
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Enable to scale the X, Y, and Z axes proportionally.
- Shear X, Y, and Z fields
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- Centre X, Y, and Z fields
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Offset an axis relative to its children.
- Path button
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Enable to animate the position of the axis using a spline drawn in the scene.
Disable Path to animate the position of the axis using explicit animation. See Creating a Motion Path.
- Stabilizer and tracking controls
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- Autoscale option box
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Select from among the following axis scaling options.
Select: |
To: |
Off |
Not use autoscaling on the image. |
On Position Changes |
Preserve the projected size of the image by automatically scaling when changing any Position parameters that affect the depth
of the image relative to the camera.
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On All Transforms |
Preserve the projected size of the image by automatically changing Position, Scale, and Centre parameters (when any Position,
Rotation, Shear, or Centre parameters are changed).
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- Parented Camera box
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Select which camera is used for the parenting offset when the immediate parent is a stereo camera. Choose left, right, or
center camera. Active only when there is exactly one parent that is a stereo camera, or if a look-at connection is attached
between the axis and the stereo camera.
- Look At Point Axis box
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- Motion Blur button
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Toggles the blur effect for the selected axis (can only be used once the global Motion Blur is enable in the Setup menu. See
Applying Motion Blur.
- Free Axis button
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Enable to ignore transformations from parent axes.
- Plane box
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