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Old 21st February 2005, 05:27 PM   #2
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Sounds like your camera is focused on a particular point (probably x0y0z0), and you're trying to zoom "through" that point, in a manner of speaking.

For example, if you open AC3D with a new document, your default view/rotation center is at 0,0,0. If you create a 1x1x1 box, say, 4 or 5 units below the XZ plane, you'll find you can NEVER quite zoom in where your camera is looking straight down at the "top" of the box while being near to it (you'll always be constrained to above the 0 plane when you're right above the box). But if you select the box and press Ctrl+G ("look at selection"), then you can zoom in on the box as far as you'd like.

That could surely be explained more clearly/efficiently, but if you play with the "look at selection" function you may find that useful. If doing a "look at selection" on your whole track at once is too constraining (if it's a big track), you could select individual surfaces or vertices to "look at".

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