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โNavigating Maya-Style
You can navigate similarly to Maya by turning on the maya-style navigation in the Perspective section of the preferences. There's not really a drawback!
When enabled, ALT -left-drag will Orbit, ALT -middle-drag will Pan, and ALT - right-drag will Dolly. These operations are available continuously within the perspective view, independent of the mouse mode.
On macOS: Maya uses the Mac's Opt key for navigation. Normally, SynthEyes would use the command key as the equivalent, but to maximize compatibility, you can use either Opt or Command to initiate Maya-style navigation.
On Linux : On Linux, you may have to adjust your modifier key so that ALT is not taken by your window manager, as you do for Maya itself.
Once you start a drag with one button, it continues in that mode. If you click either of the other two mouse buttons, the move will be canceled, which is often helpful, keep reading!
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