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title: "Get to know Vicon Nexus"
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The  Nexus user interface  enables you to access the tools you need quickly and easily. Within the primary panes ( Resources ,  View ,  Tools , and  Communications ), you use the tabs and buttons to open secondary panes containing tools and options for specific parts of the motion  capture workflow .   Resources pane:  Manage the different components of your Vicon system, and the subjects whose motion is to be captured, on the  System  tab and the  Subjects  tab. See  Manage system and subjects in the Resources pane .   View pane:  Set up the way you want to visualize the capture data from one or more cameras (or supported third-party devices) either live in real time or offline, from a saved file. See  Display data in the View pane .   Tools pane : Work through the main stages of the motion capture workflow, using the tabs in the Tools pane from left to right: System Preparation, Subject Preparation, Capture, Label/Edit and Pipeline (this last tab enables you to group and run operations that you use throughout the workflow). See  Manage the motion capture workflow in the Tools pane .    Communications pane: Data Management  tab: Store and manage all data associated with your motion capture trials (see  Manage mocap data on the Data Management tab ) Quality  tab: Assess trial health (see  Review data quality ) History  tab: View stored processing history (see  Review processing history ) Theia  tab: Select and process video files through Theia3D (see  Run Theia processing on video files ) Python  tab: Set the path to your Python installation, and run Python scripts (see  Modeling with Python  in the  Vicon Nexus Reference Guide ) Matlab tab:  Run MATLAB scripts and launch MATLAB (see  Modeling with MATLAB  in the  Vicon Nexus Reference Guide ) Monitors  tab: Set up and control monitors for your trials (see  Using monitors ) IMeasureU tab:  Use Vicon IMUs with Nexus (see  Work with Vicon IMUs ) Status  tab: View system status information Log  tab: View a log of Nexus system activity since start up   Menu bar:  Access menu options. See  Access menu options from the Nexus menu bar .   Toolbar:  Access frequently used commands and create and select view types. See  Access common commands from the Nexus toolbar . Basic keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions You can use the mouse to manipulate items and manage the way data is visualized in Nexus, and you can combine standard mouse actions with keyboard keys. The following mouse and keyboard combinations are used most frequently in Nexus. 
                 Navigate in the 3D Perspective view: 
             Zoom: Right-click + drag forward or backward Orbit: Click + drag Translate/Move: Click wheel button (or left-and-right-click) + drag Tip   To open files in Nexus, in addition to loading files as described in  Play back data with the time bar , you can drag and drop Nexus files onto a  3D Perspective  view (or any other view). File types that you can load in this way include: C3D, ENF, VSK/VST, X1D, X2D, and XCP. Select objects in the view pane : Select a single item: Click Select multiple consecutive items: SHIFT + click Select multiple non-consecutive items: CTRL + click Select items within a bounding outline: ALT + click and drag 
                 Display/hide a section within a pane: 
             Click the Display Section arrow on the right Click the Hide Section arrow on the right For lists summarizing more Nexus shortcuts and mouse actions, see  Hot keys and shortcuts . For more information on getting to know the Nexus user interface, see: