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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.

Position X, Y, and Z fields
  Translate the selected axis.
Rotation X, Y, and Z fields
  Rotate the selected axis.
Scaling X, Y, and Z fields
  Change the size of the axis.
Prop Scale button
  Enable to scale the X, Y, and Z axes proportionally.
Shear X, Y, and Z fields
  Shear the axis.
Centre X, Y, and Z fields
  Offset an axis relative to its children.
Path button
  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
  Apply stabilizing data to an axis. See Applying Tracking Data to an Axis.
Autoscale option box
  Select from among the following axis scaling options.

Select: | To:
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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.
Look At Point Axis box
  Select which axis is pointed to the attached look-at object. See Applying an Axis Look-at Connection.
Motion Blur button
  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
  Enable to ignore transformations from parent axes.
Plane box
  Select an orientation for the plane (in Camera view). See Changing the Plane.