Blender Zoom Hotkey

Hotkey letters are shown in this manual like they appear on a keyboard.

Blender zoom hotkey. Refer to the keys on the separate numeric keypad. Some of the shortcuts can be used as global shortcuts meaning they will work even when zoom is not in focus. By jason van gumster. When it comes to blender you can save time in many ways.

Possibly the best solution for you is in the user preferences under the interface tab then check the two boxes for auto depth and rotate around selection. Altf will center the view depth over whatever the mouse hovering on. List of other macos specific blender shortcut keys. Zoom in on selection.

A blank version is also provided for custom key mappings and mappings that differ based on system language. Num toggle in and out of local view zoomed on selection and hiding everything else. Object mode hotkeys. You can also press on the numeric keypad to get a local view of the selected object pressing again will pop you back to the scene view.

Ctrl w shift alt a indicates that these keys should be pressed simultaneously. You can edit a shortcut by clicking on the shortcut and then pressing the shortcut key that you would like to use. Numpad0 to numpad9 numpadplus. This adjusts your 3d view to focus on the selected object.

Without knowing the specifics of the maya feature try pressing. Num rotate view to selected object s axes. Navigating in the 3d space is done with the use of both mouse movement and keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts will appear.

Blender can do a lot of stuff so having a chart of some sort to map all those keyboard shortcuts would be handy especially if it were printable. By default scrolling forward zooms in and scrolling back zooms out. However this method doesn t always give you fine grained control and even worse some people don t have a mouse with a scroll wheel. Refers to the lowercase g.

You could use the menu item 3d view header view view selected that is the same command as pressing numpad. It works flawlessly with a few exceptions that conflict with the operating system. Keys on numeric keypad. Cmd comma preferences.

Num zoom in. Memorizing common mouse actions and numeric keypad hotkeys in blender or common keyboard hotkeys in blender s 3d view help you work more efficiently in blender. The cmd key can be used as an alternative for ctrl key on macos devices. To show all non hidden objects in the 3d view press home.

The easiest method is by using your mouse s scroll wheel. Num zoom out num0 switch to from camera view. If memorization isn t your thing you can even print lists of these mouse actions and hotkeys and refer to them whenever you need to. Are specified as modifier keys.

Home will zoom and center the view so all objects are in view. The following hotkey chart shows the basic shortcuts available for blender. Blender 2 5 centers the 3d view where the 3d cursor currently is. In blender you can zoom in two ways.

Blender shortcuts platform specific hotkeys macos.