# 4. Visualize Your Data

<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Once you have indexed datasets, explore them in the interactive 3D viewer:</span>

**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Creating a View</span>**

1. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Select **New View** from the project or choose **View** from an indexed object</span>
2. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Enter a name and description for your view</span>

**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Working with the View Editor</span>**

1. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Click **Add Objects** and select your indexed datasets</span>
2. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Datasets appear in the left panel with icons for:Visibility (colored dot)</span>

- - <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Color settings (palette icon)</span>
    - <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Bounding-box display</span>
    - <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Zoom controls</span>
    - <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Visibility (colored dot)</span>

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';"> </span>**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Navigation and Controls</span>**

- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Visibility toggle: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Use the colored dot to show/hide datasets</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Camera controls: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Click the cross-hair icon to center the camera on the dataset</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Extent display: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Use the box icon to reveal dataset boundaries</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Manual navigation: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Zoom or pan manually if objects don't appear automatically</span>

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';"> </span>**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Customizing Appearance</span>**

- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Color settings: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Access via the palette icon to choose constant colors or gradient schemes</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Point size adjustment: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Set point sizes for point clouds</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Color palettes: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Includes options like Viridis and Plasma</span>
- **<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Raster overlays: </span>**<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Overlay raster layers on imagery</span>

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';"> </span>**<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Toolbar Features</span>**

- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Switch between navigation tools (select, pan, zoom)</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Show or hide the grid</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Enter full-screen mode</span>
- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Liberation Sans';">Automatic camera re-centering when using zoom icons</span>