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# Accessing the Axis Menu

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.

X Position field
  Displays the position of the X axis. Editable.

Y Position field
  Displays the position of the Y axis. Editable.

Z Position field
  Displays the position of the Z axis. Editable.

Motion Path button
  Enable to animate the position of the axis using a spline drawn in the scene. Disable to animate the position of the axis using explicit animation. See Creating a Motion Path.

X Rotation field
  Displays the rotation of the X axis. Editable.

Y Rotation field
  Displays the rotation of the Y axis. Editable.

Z Rotation field
  Displays the rotation of the Z axis. Editable.

X Scale field
  Displays the scale of the X axis. Editable.

Y Scale field
  Displays the scale of the Y axis. Editable.

Z Scale field
  Displays the scale of the Z axis. Editable.

Proportional button
  Enable to change the fields proportionally.

X Shear field
  Displays the shear of the X axis. Editable.

Y Shear field
  Displays the shear of the Y axis. Editable.

Z Shear field
  Displays the shear of the Z axis. Editable.

X Centre field
  Displays the centre of the X axis. Editable.

Y Centre field
  Displays the centre of the Y axis. Editable.

Z Centre field
  Displays the centre of the Z axis. Editable.

Stabilizer button
  Opens the Stabilizer menu to apply stabilizing data to an axis. See Applying Tracking Data to an Axis.

Stabilizer box
  Select Track or Stabilize, then click the Stabilizer button.

Tracking Rotation box
  Select whether tracking rotation is On, Off, or Inverted.

Tracking Scale box
  Select whether tracking scaling is On, Off, or Inverted.

Autoscale option box
  Select whether to autoscale when Position settings are changed relative to the camera (On Position Changes), or when Position, Rotation, Shear, or Centre settings are changed (On All Transforms).

  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.
  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).

Parented Camera box
  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.

Point Axis box
  Select which axis is pointed to the attached look-at object. Available only when objects are attached with a Look At connection. See Applying an Axis Look-at Connection.

Motion Blur button
  Enable to use a motion blur effect for the selected axis (can only be used once the global Motion Blur is enabled in the Setup menu).

Free Axis button
  Enable to ignore transformations from parent axes.

Plane box
  Select an orientation for the plane (in Camera view). See Changing the Plane.