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3.
Move your cursor to the upper right corner of the InfraWorks window
and click the Home icon when it appears.
This should orient your view so that you can see the entire model
in plan (top-down) view. This Home icon is part of the ViewCube.
You will learn more about the ViewCube later in this chapter.
4.
Roll the center wheel of your mouse backward to zoom out. Keep
rolling backward until you can see the West Coast of North America
and then finally the whole planet.
This is evidence of the georeferenced nature of the data you are
working with. It is located precisely where it should be on Earth.
Later in this chapter, you will learn more about the use of the mouse
to navigate the model.
5.
On the Utility Bar, click the Bookmarks icon. This will open the
Bookmarks panel.
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6.
On the Bookmarks panel, click City View (see Figure 1.10).
This will orient your view to one that looks over the city with the
Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
You may not be able
to see the Golden
Gate bridge or the
major buildings in the
foreground. That will
be explained a little
bit later.
fIgure 1.10
Using a bookmark to orient the view of the model
7.
If the Model Explorer panel is visible, skip to Step 10. Otherwise, if
the InfraWorks toolbar is not visible, click the InfraWorks icon.
8.
If the Manage toolbar is not visible, click the Manage icon on the
InfraWorks toolbar.
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