The projectile is a 3D object in a 3D world. It can be moved or rotated. It can be viewed from different positions and different angles. This is very powerful. When the projectile is copied to the clipboard the currently displayed picture is used. When the trajectory is displayed and optionally recorded it also uses the currenly displayed view. This allows the user to view the projectile and the trajectory from any position or orientation.

Moving the projectile around in the window is one of the more confusing aspects of the Visualizer program. It's not that it is complex, it's just that there are so many options available and it may take a moment to get familiar with the 3D world. This tutorial breaks the information on orienting the projectile into progressive steps.

• Predefined views. This is described in the section Changing the Orientation of the Projectile, Predefined Views
• The few buttons needed to manually manipulate the projectile which should be adequate for 90 percent of the cases. This is described in the section Changing the Orientation of the Projectile, ADVANCED
• The complete manual on manipulating the projectile in the 3D world. This is provided as a footnote in the section Changing the Orientation of the Projectile, ADVANCED.

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