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go get a two-button mouse already, OK?
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Modes:Action Center
To the right of the Symmetry button is another button, a drop-down
list labeled Modes, which is used to set the Action Center for tools in
Modeler. Settings in this list (Figure 1.67) determine how tools
behave with respect to the mouse pointer, and you??™ll use them often
in Modeler.
The Modes options enable you to change how certain tools work with the mouse or how
their ???action??? is centered. The Action Center for your mouse is where a tool action happens.
For example, by default the mode is set to Action Center: Mouse. This means that
if you select the Rotate tool from the Modify tab, you can click and rotate in any viewport,
and the spot you click will be the point around which your object or selection will
rotate. If you change the Action Center to say, Selection, the selected object, polygon, or
point will become the center around which other objects rotate.
You??™ll use these varying modes depending on what you??™re creating. If you??™re sizing an
object within another object, it can be difficult to size perfectly in place using the Action
Center: Mouse setting.
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