Learn Blender 3 - 3D Navigation

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• Navigation in the 3D environment

  • Pan
  • Zoom
  • Orbit

• Pan

  • Move up, down, left, and right.
  • Shift + Middle mouse button

• Zoom

  • Zoom in and out of the environment
  • Roll the middle mouse scroll wheel
    • OR if CTRL + middle mouse button

• Orbit

  • Rotate around the environment
  • Middle mouse button

• Top left corner in the 3D viewport tells you what your current view is.

• Icons in the top right corner of the 3D viewport

  • Camera Icon uses the camera that is active in the scene.
    • Click on it again to toggle back.
  • You can toggle perspective and orthographic projection
    • Perspective is similar to how we see the world
      • Visually, parallel lines converge to a vanishing point
    • Orthographic view, lines do not converge to a vanishing point

• Context sensitive

• If you are on a laptop, for example, that do not have a numpad, go to

  • Number key at the top of your keyboard to work with the shortcuts.
  • _Edit -> Preferences - > Input -> Check Emulate Numpad

• _View -> Viewport

  • Camara
    • Numpad 0
  • Top
    • Numpad 7
  • Bottom
    • Ctrl + Numpad 7
  • Front
    • Numpad 1
  • Back
    • Ctrl + Numpad 1
  • Right
    • Numpad 3
  • Left
    • Ctrl + Numpad 3

• Toggle perspective and Orthographic

  • Numpad 5

• Can hold Alt + middle mouse button drag to snap to

  • Top
  • Bottom
  • Left
  • Right
  • Front
  • Back

• Incremental navigations

  • View -> Navigation
    • Orbit Up
      • Numpad 8
    • Orbit Down
      • Numpad 2
    • Orbit Left
      • Numpad 4
    • Orbit Right
      • Numpad 6
    • Orbit Opposite
      • Numpad 9
    • Roll Left
      • Shift Numpad 4
    • Roll Right
      • Shift Numpad 6
    • Pan Up
      • Ctrl + Numpad 8
    • Pan Down
      • Ctrl + Numpad 2
    • Pan Left
      • Ctrl + Numpad 4
    • Pan Right
      • Ctrl + Numpad 6
    • Zoom In
      • Numpad +
    • Zoom Out
      • Numpad -

• Focus on selected objects

  • Select and press Numpad . (peroid)