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Mastering Lumion 3D

By : Ciro Cardoso
Book Image

Mastering Lumion 3D

By: Ciro Cardoso

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Lumion 3D
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The remarkable Context menu


We can call it remarkable because this menu gives us the full control and shortcuts to rearrange the 3D models present in the scene. This menu is divided into two very distinct sections: the Selection and Transformation submenus, as shown in the following screenshot:

How can these menus be useful to your project? Let's start with the Selection submenu and when we select it the following options appear:

However, looking at these options doesn't help you understand how they can be so useful and powerful. Let's check how they work.

Selection – library

Working with the Nature library has some challenges and one of them is trying to identify a tree or other plant that we already placed in the scene. This can be really difficult, in particular when there are other models very similar to the one we are looking for. The Library... option found under the Selection submenu can give a hand with this task and will make your life easy. Locate the 3D model you want and using the...