Assigning a color cursor (color bar) or more of them (blue, green, magenta or coral) to a 1D, 2D and/or 3D view is helpful for navigation in complex scenes and also for better data organization. You can set more views to show a particular cursor, say blue. Then when you assign an object to the blue cursor, then all the views which are associated with the blue cursor, will immediately show information about the selected object.
When you hold 1/2/3/4 and click on an image, orthographic projection or any other pickable object in the 1Ds or 2Ds panel, it will "toggle" its cursor. 1 = blue, 2 = green, 3 = magenta, 4 = coral. So click and hold 1/2/3/4 once to assign a cursor, click and hold the same number again to remove the cursor. Similarly, you can assign a color by holding 1/2/3/4 when clicking an object in the 3D view.
Assigning a color to a view will make this view display the information of the object hidden in the cursor. Depending on the view type, it can be information about the object properties (1D view), image (2D view), or spatial placement (3D view). With cursors, you can display all this information at once, by assigning colors to your views. The system automatically refreshes views whenever a user selects or changes the cursor object.
To assign color cursors to a view, you can use CTRL+1/2/3/4 in the active view (the selected window with a blue rectangle). You can change the view cursor color also in the view context ribbon.
Sometimes it is desired to let a view cursor unchanged and display another object in this view.
When you drag and drop an image (hold the left mouse button and move), e.g. from the 1Ds panel into a 2D-view window and you hold SHIFT during the drop, then the program will set the dragged image to the cursor rather then setting the view to the image.
3D views support cursors, as well. You need to "enter" camera space by pressing the ENTER key. To leave assigning a color bar in the 3D view just rotate the view.
In all views you can use left/right arrows or page up/down keys to set a cursor to the next/previous or jump by 10 objects while still being in views. Hold SHIFT to navigate in the image list, release SHIFT to navigate in the list of aligned cameras. If one or more objects are selected, then the navigation with arrows is restricted to the selection.
When you hold 1/2/3/4 and click on an image, orthographic projection or any other pickable object in the 1Ds or 2Ds panel, it will "toggle" its cursor. 1 = blue, 2 = green, 3 = magenta, 4 = coral. So click and hold 1/2/3/4 once to assign a cursor, click and hold the same number again to remove the cursor. Similarly, you can assign a color by holding 1/2/3/4 when clicking an object in the 3D view.
Assigning a color to a view will make this view display the information of the object hidden in the cursor. Depending on the view type, it can be information about the object properties (1D view), image (2D view), or spatial placement (3D view). With cursors, you can display all this information at once, by assigning colors to your views. The system automatically refreshes views whenever a user selects or changes the cursor object.
To assign color cursors to a view, you can use CTRL+1/2/3/4 in the active view (the selected window with a blue rectangle). You can change the view cursor color also in the view context ribbon.
Sometimes it is desired to let a view cursor unchanged and display another object in this view.
When you drag and drop an image (hold the left mouse button and move), e.g. from the 1Ds panel into a 2D-view window and you hold SHIFT during the drop, then the program will set the dragged image to the cursor rather then setting the view to the image.
3D views support cursors, as well. You need to "enter" camera space by pressing the ENTER key. To leave assigning a color bar in the 3D view just rotate the view.
In all views you can use left/right arrows or page up/down keys to set a cursor to the next/previous or jump by 10 objects while still being in views. Hold SHIFT to navigate in the image list, release SHIFT to navigate in the list of aligned cameras. If one or more objects are selected, then the navigation with arrows is restricted to the selection.
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