Mouse Position

To access this screen:

Format ribbon >> General >> Position.
In the Status Bar, double click displayed section or coordinates information.

The Mouse Position screen lets you view, set and lock the coordinates of the cursor in a 3D view. This could be useful in many cases, such as:

Digitizing data points e.g. survey points, drillhole collar locations, mapping points.
Modeling geological features e.g. a fault trace on surface, a mapped geological contact.
Designing mine layouts or workings e.g. when starting a road centre line from a known position; using the Circle by Radius command to create a shaft.

You can also use this screen to query distance and direction between successive selected (clicked) cursor positions.

Tip: Design your own cursors using the Custom Cursors screen.

Locking the Cursor

The X, Y and Z co-ordinates of the mouse position are always displayed at the bottom of the main window in the Status Bar, for example:

These coordinates are also displayed on the Mouse Position screen which can be used to view or lock the cursor position. Locking of any of the co-ordinate axes prevents mouse movement in that direction. The following three 'locking' scenarios are possible:

Locking 1 coordinate restricts cursor movement to a plane.
Locking 2 coordinates restricts cursor movement to a line.
Locking all 3 coordinates restricts the cursor position to a point.

In a 3D window, if the view plane is in an orthogonal view, the X, Y or Z value may not change during mouse movement. For all other non-orthogonal views, movement of the cursor will always show changing X, Y and Z coordinate values.

Locked axes are have coordinate values highlighted in red in the Status Bar, as shown below (here the Y coordinate is locked):

To measure the distance between two or more points:

If required, display data to be measured in any 3D window.
Tap, or click with the left or right (snap) mouse button to enter an origin point, from which measurement will be taken.

Current displays zero. This is because no measurement is yet possible.

Note: Clicking will honour your current data snapping settings so you can measure between existing data points easily.
If using a mouse, move the cursor.

The distance between the cursor position and the first point displays in the Current field, which updates dynamically during mouse movement.

Gradient and Azimuth also update to show the relative directional change between the first point and the current mouse position. If the currently active 3D section is horizontal, Gradient won't change during movement.
Tap or click a second point.

Total displays the distance between the first and second clicked point. Current resets to zero.
Tap or click subsequent points.

Total shows a sum total of all distances measured so far. Each time a new point is chosen, Current resets to zero to allow precise, relative mouse positioning if needed.
To revert Total to zero, click Reset.