There's a couple ways we can pan the camera in Blender. The camera will not be locked to this point but the invisible point that the camera orbits around will be moved to it. We can also select more than one object or vertex and the camera will be centered to the mid point of our selection.

Whenever we select something in Blender and press Numpad period the camera will be centered on what we've selected. These can accessed by going to view > navigation at the bottom of the navigation options. These don't have shortcuts but are both very nice ways of moving the camera through the scene. There's also the walk and fly navigation modes. Frame camera to bounds will attempt to fit the cameras bounds to the viewport window. We can also use it to make the selected camera the active camera in the scene.Īctive camera Numpad 0 will just align the view to the active camera in the scene. This allows us to snap our view to the perspective of whatever object we've selected. The first Camera navigation shortcut is set active object as camera Ctrl Numpad 0. We can also Hold down Ctrl as well as Shift to align the view in the opposite direction. The three numbers we'll use for this are 1 - Front 3 - Right 7 - Top. We can align our view to the top, down, left and right perspective of the selected object by holding shift and then pressing a direction on the numpad. The top left will display which mode we're in and we can also tell if we're in orthographic view because everything will look very flat. To toggle between perspective and orthographic we just press 5 on the numpad. Viewpoint, perspective and orthographic view and align navigationīlender provides a quick way to toggle between different view angles as well a perspective and orthographic view.

Moves the camera so that the whole scene is in frame as well as setting the cursor to the world origin.

Align active camera to view Ctrl Alt Numpad 0.

Sets the View in the selected direction towards the object as well as setting the view to orthographic.

Align view to active top Shift Numpad 7, Bottom Shift Ctrl Numpad 7, Front Shift Numpad 1, Back Shift Ctrl Numpad 1, Right Shift Numpad 3, Left Shift Ctrl Numpad 3.Allow us to draw a box that the view will zoom in on.Moves the camera in the specified direction.Navigation Pan Left Ctrl Numpad 4, Right Ctrl Numpad 6, Up Ctrl Numpad 8, Down Ctrl Numpad 2.Rotates the view relative to it's perspective.Navigation Roll Left Shift Numpad 4, Right Shift Numpad 6.Will slightly rotate the view in the specified direction.Navigation Left Numpad 4, Right Numpad 6, Up Numpad 8 Down Numpad 2 Opposite Numpad 9.Snaps the view to each the directions and enables orthographic view.Viewport Top Numpad 7, Bottom Ctrl Numpad 7, Front Numpad 1, Back Ctrl Numpad 1, Right Numpad 3, Left Ctrl Numpad 3.Frames the view to the view of the camera.When in camera view the cameras view will be framed so that it fits the bounds of the view.Also can be used to set the active camera in the scene. Will snap the view to the selected object as if it were a camera.Set Active Object as Camera - Ctrl Numpad 0.Removes the selected objects from the local view.This system is different than the hidden in hierarchy toggle. Makes only the selected objects visible.Orthographic view removes all perspective from the view which can help with modeling since perspective adds distortion. Toggles the camera between orthographic and perspective.Centers the camera to the relative center of the whole scene.This centers the view on the selected object which allows us to orbit the camera and move it relative to that object. One of the most useful shortcuts in Blender.Below is a list with all these shortcuts and quick explanation of what each does. Blender viewport navigation shortcuts cheat sheet listīlender comes with quite a few shortcuts we can use to navigate with.

Blender shortcuts