Home Ribbon Tab
Commands available on the Home ribbon tab, grouped by panel.
Navigation
Move (ribbon key tip: I)
Tooltip: Mouse interaction modes
Choose how mouse clicks interact with the 3D view.
Dropdown items:
- Move Mode — Switch to Move mode
- Interrogate — Interrogate the scene
View From
Tooltip: View and rotation presets
Preset camera positions and rotation resets for the 3D view.
Dropdown items:
- North — View from north
- South — View from south
- East — View from east
- West — View from west
- Above — View from above
- Below — View from below
- Centre In Model — Centre the view on the model
- Reset to North — Reset heading to north
- Reset Rotations — Reset all view rotations
- Forward View — Look forward
- Nadir View — Look straight down (nadir)
Navigation
Tooltip: Navigation modes
Choose between standard, expert, first-person and other navigation styles.
Dropdown items:
- Standard Mode — Standard navigation mode
- Expert Mode — Expert navigation mode
- FPV/Camera View — First-person / camera view
- VRGSEarth Mode — Earth View Mode
- Auto Pan — Auto pan the view
- Customise Profiles... — Customise mouse navigation profiles (
ID_NAVIGATION_PROFILE_CUSTOMIZE)
Customise Profiles
Tooltip: Customise mouse navigation profiles
Opens Mouse Navigation Profiles, where you make your own mouse button mappings or import one a colleague has shared. The profiles belong to your computer, not the project, so this works with no 3D view open. Choose a profile with Mouse Profile in the 3D view's display options.
The list on the left holds the Built-in profiles and your Custom ones.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| New | Start a profile of your own. |
| Duplicate | Copy the selected profile. A built-in profile can be read but not edited, so this is how to start from one. |
| Delete | Delete a custom profile. If it was the one in use, VRGS switches back to a built-in one. |
| Import... / Export... | Read or write one profile as a .vrgsnav file. An imported profile with a name already in use is renamed, and VRGS says so. |
| Name, Description | The profile's name, 1 to 64 characters, and a note about it. |
| Navigation style | Standard (level horizon), Expert (free arcball, rolls), First person / camera, VRGS Earth or Orthographic. |
| Add Assignment / Remove | Add or remove a row under Button assignments. |
Each assignment joins a Button (Left Button, Middle Button, Right Button or Wheel) and a Modifier (any mix of Shift, Ctrl and Alt) to an Action: Rotate, Pan / Dolly (along the view direction), Zoom, Translate (screen plane), Roll or Nothing. Works in this view says whether the current renderer honours that assignment with the chosen style: Yes, Yes, with a caveat or No -- ignored. The line under the list warns about assignments that clash or will be ignored. Only the last of two assignments on the same button and modifier is kept, and a profile with no assignments cannot be saved.
OK and Apply save the changes; Cancel drops them.
Target Zoom
Tooltip: Zoom to the picked target
Click a point in the 3D view to zoom in towards it.
Game Controller
Tooltip: Game controller options
Configure or toggle full-screen mode for game-controller navigation.
Dropdown items:
- Full Screen — Toggle game-controller full screen
Connect GNSS
Tooltip: Connect to a GNSS receiver
Connect to a GPS / GNSS device for live position tracking. Once connected, the GNSS status pane shows the fix quality, satellite count and accuracy, and the buttons below become available. The dialog also collects the antenna height and, optionally, an NTRIP caster for RTK corrections — see GNSS Field Navigation.
Follow GNSS
Tooltip: Keep the camera on the live GNSS position
Re-centre the 3D view on the receiver's position as it updates. Needs a connected GNSS receiver and a project coordinate system.
Orientation Here
Tooltip: Record an orientation at the receiver's position
Open the dip / dip direction dialog for a measurement at your current GNSS position. The position is converted to the project coordinate system and stored like any other orientation — including the survey quality it was captured at.
Waypoint Here
Tooltip: Record a waypoint at the receiver's position
Create a waypoint at your current GNSS position, in project coordinates.
Sample Here
Tooltip: Record a sample point at the receiver's position
Create a sample point at your current GNSS position, in project coordinates.
Navigate To
Tooltip: Walk to the point you last picked
Set the point you last clicked in the 3D view as a navigation target. The status pane then shows the distance, a bearing to steer by, and how far you have drifted off the line.
Stop Navigating
Tooltip: Clear the navigation target
Remove the navigation target and its guidance from the status pane.
Windows
Project Explorer
Tooltip: Project Explorer
Show, hide and configure the Project Explorer and related docking tabs.
Dropdown items:
- Update Project Explorer — Update Project Explorer
- Outcrop.io — Browse Outcrop.io
- Basic Menus — Switch to Basic Menus
- Show All Tabs — Show all docking tabs
- Data Tab — Show the Data tab
- Interpretations Tab — Show the Interpretations tab
- Collections Tab — Show the Collections tab
- Properties Tab — Show the Properties tab
- VFT Tab — Show the Virtual Field Trip tab
- Athos — Show/hide the Athos assistant
- Charts Tab — Show the Charts tab
- DEM Test Tab — Show the DEM Test chart tab
- Flight Path Timeline — Show the Flight Path Timeline
- Web Tab — Show the Web tab
- Reset Layout — Reset the window layout
Windows (ribbon key tip: I)
Tooltip: Open new document windows
Open additional 3D Model, Stereonet, Map and browser windows.
Dropdown items:
- 3D Model Window — New 3D Model window
- Python Script — Python Script
- Tabbed 3d Model — New tabbed 3D Model window
- Stereonet Window — New Stereonet window
- New Map Window — New Map window. See the Map View tab.
- Web Browser — Open a web browser window
Options
Full Screen
Tooltip: Toggle full-screen mode
Switch the main window into or out of full-screen mode.
Ortho Camera
Tooltip: Toggle orthographic camera
Switch the 3D view between perspective and orthographic projection. In the Vulkan view F6 cycles perspective, orthographic, and orthographic with the grid overlay.
Record Movie
Tooltip: Record a movie of the 3D view
Capture the 3D view to a movie file. In the Vulkan view the movie carries the 2D overlays; see Copy Screen.
Copy Screen
Tooltip: Copy the 3D view to the clipboard
Copy the current 3D view as a bitmap image to the clipboard.
In the Vulkan view a copy or a recording carries the view's 2D overlays: the compass, the scale bar, the attribute colour key, the stratigraphic column and the Cesium attribution that streamed imagery has to show. They are laid out for the picture, not the window, so a movie looks the same however big the VRGS window was. It leaves out what belongs to a live window: the navigator pads, the GNSS block and marker, the digitising cursor, the selection marquee and the performance HUD.
Overlays
Tooltip: On-screen overlays
Dropdown items:
- Compass — Show or hide the compass (
ID_DISPLAYOPT_SHOW_COMPASS) - Scale Bar — Scale bar overlay (
ID_DISPLAYOPT_SHOW_SCALE_BAR) - Colour Bar — Colour bar for the active attribute colour map (
ID_DISPLAYOPT_SHOW_COLOURBAR) - Strat Column — Stratigraphic column overlay (
ID_DISPLAYOPT_SHOW_STRATCOLUMN) - Navigator — Navigation buttons (
ID_DISPLAYOPT_NAVIGATOR) - Base map and terrain layers — the sub-gallery below
Base map and terrain layers
- Cesium Elevation — Cesium World Terrain elevation (
ID_VIEW_SATELLITE_BASEMAP) - Google Tiles — Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles (
ID_VIEW_GOOGLE_3D_TILES) - 3D Tiles from File... — a 3D Tiles tileset on disk, by its
tileset.json(ID_VIEW_3DTILES_FILE) - 3D Tiles from URL... — a 3D Tiles tileset on the web, or a Cesium ion asset by its number (
ID_VIEW_3DTILES_URL) - Google Satellite / Satellite Imagery — Google satellite imagery (
ID_VIEW_GOOGLE_SATELLITE) - Roads — Google road map (
ID_VIEW_GOOGLE_ROADMAP) - Terrain — Google terrain map (
ID_VIEW_GOOGLE_TERRAIN)
In the Vulkan view F8 turns the procedural sky on and off, and F9 does the same for Cesium Elevation.
Scene Options
Tooltip: Scene display options
Dropdown items:
- Base Plane — Show the base plane (
ID_SHOW_BASEPLANE) - Laser Pointer — Show the laser pointer (
ID_SHOW_LASERPOINTER) - Backface Culling — Enable backface culling (
ID_ENABLE_BACKFACE_CULLING) - Collision Detection — Enable collision detection (
ID_ENABLE_COLLISIONDETECTION) - Auto Properties — Show an object's properties automatically when it is selected (
ID_VIEW_AUTOSELECT)
VR
MultiUser
Tooltip: Multi-user (VFT) commands
Start a server or join an existing Virtual Field Trip session.
Dropdown items:
- Start Server — Start a multi-user trip server
- Join Trip — Join an existing trip
Connect HMD
Tooltip: Connect a head-mounted display
Connect a VR headset and switch the 3D view to VR rendering.
GeoTour Log On
Tooltip: Log into your Geotour account
Access online services such as Outcrop.io and multi-user virtual field trips.
Upload to Cloud
Push the project's interpretation history to the cloud, so it can be shared or pulled down on another machine. See Interpretation Version Control.
Update
License Status
License Status
Dropdown items:
- Activate — Activate a licence
- Deactivate — Deactivate the licence
Help
Tooltip: Help and support
Opens the documentation site in your browser, as does Ctrl+F1. The dropdown holds the other support links and the About box.
Dropdown items:
- Email Support — Email VRGS support
- Online Help — Open the online help
- VRGeoscience.com — Visit VRGeoscience.com
- About VRGS — About VRGS