# Navigating the Scene

Use your mouse or touchscreen to easily navigate in and around your FormIt models:

* **Orbit** by right-clicking and dragging the mouse or swiping across the screen for touch-enabled devices. This will use your cursor point in 3D space about which to orbit the camera.
  * You can also hold the Shift key to Pan.
* **Zoom** in and out by scrolling the mouse wheel up and down, or pinching for touch-enabled devices. This will use a point in 3D space at which to zoom to, and will slow down the zoom as you approach a surface or another object.
  * You can also hold Ctrl to zoom at a constant rate, not affected by proximity to objects.
* **Pan** by middle-clicking and dragging the mouse, or dragging two fingers for touch-enabled devices.

You can also use the floating navigation toolbar on the right side of the canvas to go into specific view modes. Shortcuts are noted in parentheses.

![](/files/-MlG7uR4Rd9QvMGjH6_z) **Orthographic views**: Click to reveal a flyout menu of available [orthographic views](/tool-library/orthographic-views.md).

![](/files/-MlG7uRBpb4jozdCQ1bm) **Default 3D View (ZD):** Launches the default 3D view.

![](/files/-MlG7uRDXicbFF1O3j9a) **Walkthrough (FT):** “Jetpack” mode allows you to walk through the scene using your keyboard. Use WASD to move forward/backward/left/right, and use Q/E to move up/down. Use the spacebar key to "fly."

![](/files/-MlG7uREBl_uAZJPrLtw) **Orbit (O):** When enabled, left-click and drag the mouse to orbit around the model. You can also do this at any time by right-click and dragging.

![](/files/-MlG7uRFICmdqiqlcrik) **Swivel (SV):** Use the Swivel tool from the Navigation toolbar to look around the scene from a fixed point.

![](/files/-MlG7uRG19Li-wuBzCmn) **Pan (P):** Click and drag the middle mouse button, or use the Pan (hand) tool from the Navigation toolbar to pan across the scene.

![](/files/-MlG7uRHw7PQ-xGeQ_NU) **Zoom (Z):** Scroll the mouse wheel, or select the Zoom tool from the Navigation toolbar and click and drag the left mouse button to zoom.

![](/files/-MlG7uRISC6f9BfI65jB) **Zoom All (ZE or ZA):** Zoom to fit the entire model into the current view

![](/files/-MlG7uRJY2ztSrc_9Jni) **Zoom Selection (ZS):** Zoom to fit all of the currently selected objects into the current view.


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