Change your view of a canvas plane
 
 
 

Track or dolly your view, set the zoom level percentage, view a canvas from behind, rotate your canvas, or reset your view to its original setting.

To sketch on different regions of a canvas plane, you may want to move or track the view (left, right, up, or down) or zoom or dolly the view (forward or back).

Brushes are most responsive when you are viewing the canvas plane at its actual size (1:1 or 100%).

Brush strokes may appear slow when you are zoomed out of a canvas plane; however, this is because the stroke is actually very large relative to the canvas plane.

You can only track and dolly the view of a canvas plane that is in an orthographic view. You cannot track or dolly the view of a canvas plane that is in a perspective view.

You can access the middle mouse button and right mouse button using the side button on your stylus.

See Set up my tablet and stylus.

The operations below all apply to the active canvas plane.

See Select a canvas.

Several of these operations can be accomplished from buttons in the Paint window title bar.

See The Paint window.

To track the view of a canvas plane

Do one of the following:

To dolly the view of a canvas plane

Do one of the following:

To set the zoom level percentage

Click the button in the Paint window title bar, and select a zoom level from the menu.

NoteIn an orthographic window, selecting a zoom level dollies the camera for that view. In a perspective window, selecting a zoom level scales the size of the canvas plane.

See also Scale a canvas plane

To rotate the canvas

Click the button in the Paint window title bar and drag (to the right to rotate clockwise, to the left to rotate counter-clockwise).

To view a canvas plane at its actual size (1:1 or 100%)

Click the button in the Paint window title bar, and select 100% from the menu.

To view a canvas from behind

  1. Click the button in the Paint window title bar

    The canvas view is reversed, and you are looking at it from behind.

  2. Click the button again to revert to the front-facing view.

To reset the view of a canvas plane to its default view

Click the button in the Paint window title bar.