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3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

You're reading from   3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle Bringing puzzles in 3 dimensions for 3D printing with Blender

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785888892
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rotating the view


In Blender, you can change the angle of the view by:

  • Clicking and holding the middle mouse button and moving the mouse pointer.

  • Pressing 2 or 8 on the number pad to rotate the view up and down.

  • Pressing 4 or 6 on the number pad to rotate the view left and right.

The point at which the view is rotating can change. Follow these steps to center the view rotation on a specific object:

  1. Select the object.

  2. Press the . (period) key on the number pad.

The selected object will fill the view and all view rotations will now center on that object:

Jumping to rotation

Blender has six set views that can be quickly jumped to at any time:

  • Press 1 on the number pad to jump to the front view

  • Press 3 on the number pad to jump to the right view

  • Press 7 on the number pad to jump to the top view

  • Press Ctrl + 7 or 9 on the number pad to jump to the bottom view

  • Press Ctrl + 1 on the number pad to jump to the back view

  • Press Ctrl + 3 to jump to the left view

Panning the view

Panning the view means moving without...

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