Is there a way to set-up new views in Blender. I would like to have all four sides (not just top - front - side). This is so I can have a more architectural set-up of front/back, right/left.
Thank you!
open extra 3d windows then set an opposit view by first holding the ctrl key and selecting your choice…ctrl num7 to get the under view.
kevin patrick,
Take a look at this article. When I set my defaults up I followed the following general procedure:
- Start with the default single 3d window
- Create a new Screen Layout - at the top of your 3d window there are 2 pull-down menus, 1 for screen layouts on the left and one for scenes on the right. Using the screen layout pull-down menu, select add new, and name the screen layout something like “4 View”
- Follow the instructions in the article below to split your single 3d view into 4 separate 3d views
- In each view, set the orientation. I use:
Top left view as top view - numpad 7
Bottom left view as front view - numpad 1
Bottom right view as right side view - numpad 3
Top right view as camera view - select the camera and press ctrl numpad 0 - After you have everything the way you want it, press ctrl-u to save as default startup file
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/PartI/Interface/Window_system
You can even right click on the headers to hide them.
Thank you Charles. It looks like there’s a good bit of blender that is just under the surface - never would have thought it was that easy. Obi, the screen layout post was right on, now I can flip between several working modes, very very nice.Cheers all!