Hi Paul,

> - In the 3D viewport im finding it difficult to zoom way in sometimes,
> the zoom by area/target does help somewhat but can we have
> an option in options>view for parallel projection?

Added to the wishlist - it should not be too difficult to add when I get a chance to focus on some view-related stuff.

One thing that can also help is after you have placed the target point with zoom area, use the zoom button on that viewport toolbar just to the right of it - you can click and drag slightly up or down on that to get a much more gradual and small zoom adjustment than generally happens with the scroll wheel.

But yeah if you get really really close to something the perspective near clipping planes will kick in and it will get clipped from view.

- Michael