In this quick Blender 2.5 video tip we demonstrate how by changing a couple settings in the User Preferences you can dramatically increase the accuracy and ease of manipulating your object in the viewport.
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You can also use Numpad “.” to zoom to and orbit around selected.
You can also use Numpad “.” to zoom to and orbit around selected.
I feel kind of restricted with the “rotate around selected” turned on, so I’ll probably just do like AlexanderL.
Great to know this.
When I was first starting my CG education I used a program called Animartion Master. that rotated around the selection. I always found that quite useful.
That zooming to the pointer seems great too. That one thing is the one only thing I like about Corel Draw.
Anyway, great tip!
I used “rotation around selected” in DS Catia – the very helpful feature. And it’s “zooming to element” system is pretty close to Blender’s “.” hotkey. But Catia has a differense – there you control not only “zoom to element” but exactly how close it will be zoomed after some keys and mouse click combination. I dragged a small rectangle and Catia zoomed and centered all selected elements to the rectangle’s size. It’s very fast and handy! I wish to see this feature in Blender too
Thank you for the useful tip!
Thanks, that was a good tip!
slightly off topic, but happy fourth of july, blender cookie!
You save my life.
Thanksss!!.
I’m not sure why this required a nearly three minute video tutorial, this could be explained in three images really.
You know, funny enough, i have gone through sooo many of your tutorials without doing this, and wondering the whole time why my zoom/rotate functionality was different^^