Daily Blender Tip 160: Snap to orthographic view

Jan van den Hemel · February 8, 2019

Jan van den Hemel writes:

You probably know the numpad keys switch the 3D views in Blender. But there’s another way! This could be useful if you are working for example on a laptop that doesn’t have a numpad on the keyboard. Find out how in this quick video…

Author Jan van den Hemel

Hi, my name is Jan and I help companies by creating short videos for their websites and internal use, mostly as a freelancer for agencies. I post daily one-minute tutorials for Blender users and wrote the popular "Blender Secrets" e-books.

4 responses

Ramukka

8 February 2019 at 08:10

this seems very useful!
too bad my laptop keyboards alt is broken though

Artur Mandas

8 February 2019 at 09:56

the best tip so far.

RobW

8 February 2019 at 16:21

This only works with the default shortcuts when using Blender.
You will have to redo this when using a more ‘standard’ ALT+L/M/R mouse button camera navigation.

Yeshua Nel

8 February 2019 at 18:40

Great stuff, thanks

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