If you click on the Cube button on the left hand side of the 3D Canvas Window, a group of primitives will be displayed. You can drag and drop these onto your Scene.
Many older 3D cards and some new 3D cards do not provide acceleration in True Color mode. If 3D Canvas seems particularly slow on your 3D accelerated system, it is likely that you are running non-accelerated due to your desktop color depth.
Textured items usually look best with a white background color.
Multiple faces can be selected by shift-selecting.
You can adjust the intensity of a light by scaling it. You can also adjust its intensity through its properties which can be viewed by right-clicking on the light and selecting "Properties".
Filling an object with a high quality textured material produces a much more life-like appearance than filling it with color.
The default lighting for 3D Canvas is intended to be used during the creation of models. To make your scene look its best, you should design your own lighting.
The easiest way to produce a rotating component is to set a Rotational Velocity. This can be set by right-clicking on a component and selecting "Properties".
During animation, the Rotational Velocity of a scene component is added to its key-frame orientation. Setting both is an effective way to create a tumbling component.
