Align view to selection

DaveC · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:59 am

Here is a very handy little tip that I just discovered today which I could've used sooo many times in the past.

Let's say you're editing just one face, and you want to move just one or two vertices along the same plane as the face but the face isn't flat on an X, Y or Z (zed) plane. You'll just have to line it up as best you can by eye, won't you?

NO!!!!! THAT'S JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!

You can align the current view to the selection by pressing [NUMPAD *].

Try it! Select a whole object, rotate it in object mode to some odd or awkward angle and press [NUMPAD *].

Select some vertices that make up a face and press [NUMPAD *].

C'est wicked, innit?

Coyabbit · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:00 am

Awesome tip Dave! This will help alot.

Apollos · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:18 am

Somehow I missed this tip until now, but it is GRAND!

pitat450 · **Joined:** Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:10 am **Posts:** 2

many times this would have come handy to me and speed things up, this time, i coulnt do without it ...searched...found this topic and used the tip! How come i did not know about this untill now?...Thanx for postin! Big timesaver, man

ivanegues · **Joined:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:12 am **Posts:** 292

For some extra orientation and views help, a new feature is in View, Transform orientation.

Gretter · **Joined:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:40 am **Posts:** 2

Any tips for this in 2.5? I just downloaded the latest release and '*', shift-NUM1,NUM3 doesn't change anything. shift-NUM7 appears to zoom out a bit.

Perhaps there's a script I could use? I would like to be able to align the view to a selected normal. Wether it's a face normal view or transformation normal.

thx.

Profnull · **Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:06 pm

Gretter,
to get the opposite view to numpad 1 in 2.5 you press CTRL-numpad 1 and same thing for other views.
Aligning a view to a face is the numpad * I think.

DaveC · **Posted:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:23 am

The numpad * shortcut to align view to selected is currently unavailable in 2.5x
What they've done instead is made all of the numpad view keys (numpad 1, 3 and 7) work to view selected by pressing them with shift.

So, shift+numpad 1 will view the selection from its front. shift+numpad 7 will view the selection from its top. Additionally, ctrl still works for the reverse. Shift+Ctrl+numpad 7 views the selection from it's bottom.

Hope that helps.

Profnull · **Posted:** Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:33 pm

Definitely helped me, Dave.
The first 3D ware I ever used had that option - but since I didn't use it much I have not missed it.

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