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## Top View

Figure (plane-top2): Translating from the Top View

The top view is the default view. The orientation of the axes is shown in Figure (plane-top1) . The surface of the viewing screen and the graphics tablet is the XY plane. Edit changes using the graphics tablet will affect only the X and Y coordinates of the primitive.

`mged> sed x
Select ``Translate'' in the Solid Edit menu
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Select different points on the tablet with the mouse, each time pressing the middle mouse button. Notice how the X and Y coordinates of the V vector change, but the Z coordinate does not. An example of this is shown in Figure (plane-top2) ; compare the values of V with those in Figure (plane-top1) .

Select ``REJECT Edit'' in the Button menu