Sometimes when you're creating a large object, it'll be bigger than what you can 
     see inside the window. In this case you're going to have to zoom in/out, move the 
     view, or in the case of the 3d mode, rotate round the object.

     First of all, before you can do any operations on the view, you have to switch 
     to VIEW mode. To do this, click on the EYE ()  symbol in the
     toolbar. If you dont, any actions you make will effect whatever
     object you were working on last, instad of the view itself.

     Once you've done that, click on the tool you want to use (rotation, sizing or 
     moving), in the toolbar. Note that Rotation will ONLY work in 3d mode, 
     you cant rotate the side, top or front views, you can only zoom/move around them.



     Next, is the tricky bit. You have to select which planes you want to affect. 
     Most of the time, when working on the view modes, you can have them  ALL 
     selected (X,Y,Z) and forget about them, but, for example, if you only wanted 
     to move a specific way,  eg: along the X axis, you would make sure that
     only the plane you wanted to move along was actually selected, in this case
     the X plane. I dont expect you to understand a word I'm talking about here,
     the only way you can really suss this bit out is , like most things in 
     Cinema4d, to actually go about doing it and experiment with it.
     So dont worry if that just flew over your head =).

     Once you've got all that set up, click somewhere inside the view window, 
     and drag the mouse. 

     If you had the size tool selected, you can zoom in/out of the view.

     If you had move selected, you can scroll up/down/left/right around the view.

     If you had Rotation selected, you can rotate around the object. Note that 
     this will ONLY work in 3d view mode.


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