camera cliping distance 2

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Thanks for the answer. It’s useful. However, I did not make the question clear at the first place. So here’s the “camera cliping distance 2”. (Sorry that I don’t know how to stick with the first topic, show me if you could)

What I mean by changing the camera cliping distance is I assume there’s a camera representing the top view, side view, front view, or perspective view. There are cliping issues with these views too, how could I increase the setting?

Thanks.

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If you’re referring to the scale of the editing screens, you can zoom out (or in) by the using <Ctrl-MMB> and moving the mouse towards you (or away from you to zoom in). The distance you move the mouse determine how fast the screen zooms in and out.

(in case you aren’t familiar with the Blender interface, <Ctrl-MMB> means to press and hold the Control key and the Middle Mouse Button at the same time.)

To scroll the screen you use <Shift-MMB> and move the mouse and the screen follows. Just using MMB and moving the mouse causes the screen to rotate in 3D.

Hope this helps.

Dave S.

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Hey Dave:

Thanks for replying. I am relative new to Blender, but your answer is
out of my original question.

My problem is: loading a huge terrin dxf into blender226, I don’t have problem to move around with the basic mouse controls, but I have a problem to see the mesh within the top view, side view, perspective view, some of the faces are being cliped out by the camera if there is one. this is a very common issue, I had same probelm with Maya 4.5, in Maya, I could select the perspective camera and increase the cliping distance at the camera property. But I don’t know how to select a “Blender Top View Camera” (if there is one.) to “Shift click” and change that magic number.

Thanks again!!

Xi

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Never had this problem and I don’t know if one has an influence on the “cameras” in the edit windows.
Oh, just saw one has an influence.
With the cursor over an edit window [Shif]+F7 you get a window with e.g a button for background pics. The last line gives ClipSta and ClipEnd (default is 500) for the “camera”. The desired value you can type in with [Shift]+LMB over the button.
You get back with [Shift]+F5.

An alternative would be to scale the model down. :wink:

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:smiley:

That’s it!!

Thank you so very much!!

By the way, scale down would not be an option [!]

I have many questions to ask tomorrow. %|

Can’t take anymore today. :frowning: