How do I move the camera viewpoint so that I'm inside my design?

[Anonymous]

I'm designing a small rectangular single-room cabin in F360, centered around the origin (the origin of all planes is the middle of the cabin floor, and it goes "up" from there). How do I move the camera viewpoint so that I'm inside the cabin? I tried zooming in and rotating which can give me a partial view but the focal length is always too close. If I zoom out enough to really see the interior, the camera is outside the external walls again. I'd like to somehow place the camera inside the cabin so I can zoom and rotate as if I was standing in the center of the floor.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

The key to viewing a model like you desire is to set the camera to Perspective View.  Of course you if helps to define your camera location to see what you desire.  Take a look a the Screencast on how to do it on a very small model.

[Anonymous]

Thank you John. I'm glad you added the audio narration, because most of the time I can't follow the silent screencasts. Your explanation was perfectly understandable, but I'm still left with the following question: Using your example, is there any way to set the camera as if the viewer is standing on the top of your cylinder? For a lack of a better way to say it, it still seems like the camera is outside the cabin yet also inside at the same time, if that makes sense? Because when I zoom out, I end up back outside the cabin again, even after following your instructions. I want to "zoom out" from the perspective of someone standing in the middle of the cabin, which would mean just getting a wider focal view of the inside of the cabin (think about a fisheye lens).

[jhackney1972]

The only thing I can suggest is for you to place your Home view in the place inside the closed space and then carefully perform your view from that location.  There is no feature to allow walk-through viewing in Fusion 360 like you can do in Autodesk Navisworks.