This remembers me something, i dont know were i saw it but there is a vague idea in my mind of that. The idea is that when you, for example, hold shift while orbiting in 3D, the camera snaps to the parallel views (front, right, etc) this could be a very intuitive way of changing views.

Hi Ed,

> The idea is that when you, for example, hold shift while orbiting
> in 3D, the camera snaps to the parallel views (front, right, etc)
> this could be a very intuitive way of changing views.

That could be interesting, but I can think of a couple of problems.

One is that shift + right drag is already used as an alternate way to do panning in the 3D view, that's to be compatible with Rhino and also to help out people who are using a 2 button mouse that has no middle scroll wheel in it.

The other problem is that just aligning the view by itself doesn't quite do the whole job if you end up with a view where you're looking directly at the edge of the construction plane. So it probably needs to set both the view and the construction plane together.

Maybe something more like just tap shift after you have already started rotating...

- Michael

I said shift cause it was the first thing that came to my mind and... I agree with you, the view is not the only thing that has to be aligned. I like your idea of pressing a key while rotating. If that can be done it will be very welcome!

Hi Michael,

one thing that I would find usefull, is to be able select or choose any of the top, front or side "cplane" while in the 3D viewport. Of course this is without having to create a cplane manually each time. Maybe some kind of script assign to a shortcut key might do it if it doesn't already exist.

Thanks,
Felix

Hi Felix, yeah it is possible to set up some scripts on keyboard shortcuts that will flip the cplane to the Front or Right one while you are in the 3D viewport.

Check out this message for the scripts to use:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2008.2

Also a related thing is a script to set the cplane to be aligned with the current angled view direction of the 3D viewport's camera:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2599.4

- Michael