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Navigating with the Mouse Toolbar
The simplest form of navigation uses the Pan, Look, Orbit, and Dolly buttons on the Navigate toolbar, which you can re-open if needed by right-clicking and selecting Toolbars/Mouse.
You can click on one of the four buttons (Pan, Look, Orbit, and Dolly) to select that mode. It will turn light blue, as the active mouse mode. Left-clicking and dragging in the viewport will then create the corresponding camera motion.
Alternatively, you can drag within the button itself to create the corresponding motion without permanently changing the mode. This is good for quickly doing something other than the current mode, without changing the mode. For example, a quick Look while you have been panning.
You can also navigate using the middle mouse button. When the mouse mode is set to something OTHER than Navigate, one of the Pan, Look, Orbit, and Dolly buttons will still remain lit in a tan color. That color indicates the action the middle mouse button will create, when depressed in the rest of the window.
Similarly, you can middle-click one of the buttons to change the action of the middle mouse button, or middle-drag within the button to temporarily create a motion without changing the mode.
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