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title: "Navigation Settings"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/html/3_interface-and-gestures_navigation-settings.html"
section_path: "Interface & Gestures > Navigation Settings"
description: "ZBrush offers the ability to adjust camera rotation Navigation and MultiTouch settings. This section covers information on using and customizing …"
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# Navigation Settings

ZBrush offers the ability to adjust camera rotation **Navigation** and **MultiTouch** settings. This section covers information on using and customizing navigation-related settings.

![Image: 2024-3-touch-navigation-settings-index.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-3-touch-navigation-settings-index.png)\
User Settings > Navigation Index

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# 1. Navigation

These settings affect how camera rotation functions within the canvas.

![Image: 2024-3-touch-navigation-full-menu.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-3-touch-navigation-full-menu.png)\
User Settings > Navigation Menu

## Rotation XYZ

Choose a rotation axis to orient the camera when orbiting around the model.

### Rotate X

![Image: 2024-3-touch-navigation-X.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-3-touch-navigation-X.png)

Orients the camera to prioritize rotation along the x axis when dragging your finger or pencil horizontally across the screen.

> **Note:** Dragging vertically across the screen orbits the model naturally in XYZ space until the gesture returns to a horizontal path.

### Rotate Y

![Image: 2024-3-touch-navigation-Y.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-3-touch-navigation-Y.png)

Orients the camera to prioritize rotation along the y axis when dragging your finger or pencil horizontally across the screen.

> **Note:** Dragging vertically across the screen orbits the model naturally in XYZ space until the gesture returns to a horizontal path.

### Rotate Z

![Image: 2024-3-touch-navigation-Z.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-3-touch-navigation-Z.png)

When dragging horizontally across the screen, camera prioritizes rotation along the z axis in relation to its position with the floor grid.

> **Note:** Dragging vertically across the screen orbits the model naturally in XYZ space until the gesture returns to a horizontal path.

### Rotate XYZ

Orients the camera to prioritize rotation across all axes.

> **Note:** **Rot XYZ** is ZBrush's default setting.

![Image: 2024-3-touch-navigation-XYZ.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-3-touch-navigation-XYZ.png)

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# 2. Multi-touch

## Center Navigation on Pinch

When active, two-finger pinch to zoom targets the central area between your fingers when first pressed on the screen, working as an anchor to zoom and out.

![Image: 2024-3-touch-multitouch-options.png](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/2024-3-touch-multitouch-options.png)

> **Important:** Disabling this option prioritizes the center of the currently selected subtool when using pinch to zoom.

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## Allow Roll Gesture

Controls two-finger gesture ability to "roll" or "rotate" the camera/model.

### Enabled:

Use two fingers to pinch zoom, with added ability to roll/rotate the camera simultaneously.

### [Video: 2024-3-touch-navigation-allow-roll-gesture.mp4](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Videos/2024-3-touch-navigation-allow-roll-gesture.mp4)

### Disabled:

Using two fingers to roll/rotate is disabled, leaving only pinch-to-zoom navigation.

[Video: 2024-3-touch-navigation-roll-gesture-disabled.mp4](https://help.maxon.net/zbp/en-us/Content/Resources/Videos/2024-3-touch-navigation-roll-gesture-disabled.mp4)

> **Note:** When the **Touch Navigation** option is enabled and **Allow Roll Gesture** is disabled, Apple Pencil or "one-finger touch" can still be used in the surrounding canvas area to orbit the camera around the model.

> **Tip:** Pro Tip:
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> Disable **Allow Roll Gesture** if you are working at a specific angle of the camera toward the model. This essentially blocks two-finger pinch from changing angle orientation, leaving only zoom when using a two-finger pinch gesture.