Q: "Back View" in 3D View (or similar) [SOLVED..]

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Hi!

I was reading BlenderArt #8: Car Modeling just a couple of minutes ago. On page 51 there is a screenshot of Blender where the screen is split into 4 “3D View”, and one of them is the “Back View”.

When using the NumPad shortkeys, or the view-menu on the header, I can only find these options: Side, Front, Top, User, Camera.

Does anybody know how to change to, for instance, “Back View” and still have the grid displayed and a background-image?

Thanks & Happy Blending!
JMD

EDIT: Solved. Hold down SHIFT while pressing Side, Front and Top. Thank you BlenderWiki. :smiley:
Took me an hour to figure out …

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i bet you found some other useful stuff along the way…

sorry i didn’t get here sooner!

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Hold down SHIFT while pressing Side, Front and Top

It’s actually Ctrl, not Shft.

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Shift and CTRL both work in linux. Only CTRL works on the windows machine at work.

GreyBeard

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I have done some “research”, since everybody came up with a different answer.:wink:

  • http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/3D_View_Options says that SHIFT is the key. (Under section View Menu > Side, Front, Top)
  • Both CTRL and SHIFT works on Windows, but they work differently:
  • SHIFT works only when choosing the view from the menu on the header (ex.: [View] > [Side]).
  • CTRL works both when using the numpads, and when choosing from the menu.
  • And, as GreyBeard said, both keys work on Linux. (I haven’t tested, reason: haven’t got Linux at home.)Thanks for all your answers anyway.
    And yet again; happy blending!
    JMD