Autodesk® SteeringWheels®, or wheels, are part of the Showcase user interface and provide several ways to change the view. Like a toolbar, each SteeringWheel provides easy access to many related tools. The tool buttons on the wheel are called wedges. Showcase has several SteeringWheels: the View Object Wheel, the Tour Building Wheel, and the Full Navigation Wheel.
Additionally, the 3D wheels have “Mini Wheel” variants. The Mini Wheels contain most of the same tool wedges as their full-size counterparts and can be also be accessed from the Canvas toolbar and wheel right-click menu locations.
All of the wheels are tracking menus because they track, or follow, the mouse pointer within the canvas when a wheel is enabled. The tools vary depending on which SteeringWheel is shown.
Of the available SteeringWheels, two are sometimes referred to as Easy Wheels: the Easy View Object Wheel and the Easy Tour Building Wheel. As their names imply, each Easy Wheel is intended to make it easier for reviewers who have little or no experience manipulating 3D objects on screen to view particular types of models. Unlike the Easy Wheels, the Full Navigation Wheel contains the complete Easy Wheel toolsets and more. The Full Navigation Wheel is intended for more advanced users of Showcase.
To show or hid the SteeringWheels, do one of the following:
) and select a wheel.
If the Navigation bar is not visible, select View > Show Navigation Bar to display it on the right side of the viewport.
