Walk/Fly WASD+Mouse Navigation Mode

[TDahl]

For reference, there have been a few earlier discussions of WASD navigation:

Move in wasd

I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE GOOD AT AUTO CAD SKETCHUP. BUT I FORGE MAPS IN HALO. HOW DO I MOVE AROUND IN SKETCHUP USING WASD MONTIOR CONTROLS? WHERE IS THE SETTING TO SWITCH TO FORGE CONTROLS?! WHY DOES IT NOT WORK LIKE A VIDEO GAME? HOW DO I SET TO MOVE AROUND USING WASD AND MOUSE LOOK JUST LIKE HALO?!! WHY IS THERE NOT A MONTIONR ORB TOOL IN THE WALK TOOL?! THIS IS STUPID YOU CANT EVEN FLY THROUGH A MODEL FROM THE CLOUD PREFABS AND LOOK AROUND LIKE A NORMAL PERSON DOES. WHERE IS THE…

Walk through functions (Walk and Look Around)

When done using orbit SketchUp doesn’t help you get the eye height back by itself. That’s why I do this kind of navigation completely manually with look around, orbit, pan and mouse wheel as opposed to the walk around tool. I agree that arrow keys (or WASD) would be much more intuitive for first person view. Regarding the units you can go top Windows > Model Info > Units and change them to meters or centimeters. To get the camera to a defined height over the floor, activate look around tool, t…