Introduction

You can easily change the center of reference or rotation to center an active part of your model and focus your attention around a specific point.  Picking a new center of rotation immediately snaps the chosen point to the center of the workspace.

Introduction

OpenVSP includes standard views that you can quickly switch between to orient your model to a common view such as Top, Front, or Isometric.

Introduction

The workspace background color may be changed to your preference and can also display an image of your choice.  Placing images in the background is useful for overlaying models to aircraft drawings or pictures or for creating your own scenes for graphics.

Introduction

The main workspace can be resized and partitioned to view your model from multiple angles at once.  This is also useful for creating attractive figures for publications.

Introduction

This tutorial will walk you through how to interact with OpenVSP’s file navigation system.