In many blender tutorials, I see, they are switching from Front to bank to front and back again very fast while working with the mesh.
When I am using blender, to get access to most of the shortcut keys I’ll have to rest my hand on the left side of the keyboard. This confuses me - how would I get access to Numpad which is all the way to the right of the keyboard?
Using the 1-0 keys just above the alphabets doesn’t feel right either. Using 1,3,7 doesn’t feel comfortable.
Is there any shortcut/plugin/hack that I am missing to change view very quickly while resting my hand on the left side of the keyboard?
The best option is to rotate the view with middle mouse and while in an preferable angle press the Alt keyboard button to snap view into a location.
I remember that this bothered me quite a while ago and I thought to buy an external numpad keyboard, but through time I got used to it. Now I just simply raise my right hand from mouse and hit the key when needed without even think about it.
Thanks guys. Taking the right hand from the mouse to numpad feels too much for me.
@const Thanks buddy. That worked for me. The only thing is it would’ve been nice if the snapping changed the view from perspective to Orthographic. I wonder how to do that without the Numpad 5 key.
isn’t that a setting to auto-magically go into orto mode when pressing the numpad keys?
I know what you mean though, It’s slowing down for me on wacom also. I’ve made 3 script files.
you can check out the one called “change perspective”, the operator to bind is. screen.noga_gesture_change_perspective
there are two others, I’ve hotkeyed Shift+F2 to change screen type, it works like you call the operator then move the mouse, up is 3d view, right is nodes I think, left is FCurve, and down is compositor.
Shift+F3 I call the screen.noga_gesture_split_view operator, which splits the view at the point where the operator called from. and in the direction you move the mouse.
Shift+F4 is now the change perspective. Up->Top, Down->Bottom, Left->Left, Right->Right. and if you call the operator and just left clicks you get into Front perspective view.
Right click, and ESC is cancel. The script is work in progress, I want to draw icons and some explanations which helps the user visually. but it’s currently working but kinda silent. and non-configurable.