Blender Pan Zoom Rotate
To navigate around the 3d viewport use the middle mouse button.
Blender pan zoom rotate. The easiest method is by using your mouse s scroll wheel. We go over the orbit pan and zoom tool with a 2 button mouse trackpad or mighty mouse. You will learn the controls used to rotate pan and zoom the 3d view. For panning the view hold shift click and hold the middle mouse button.
If you start in the middle of the area and move up and down or left and right the view is rotated around the middle of the area. Rotate the view around the point of interest. Click and drag mmb on the viewport s area. You will find some shortcuts to pan in the view menu of the 3d window.
By default scrolling forward zooms in and scrolling back zooms out. However this method doesn t always give you fine grained control and even worse some people don t have a mouse with a scroll wheel. A short tutorial that covers navigating the 3d workspace in blender. To free form rotate any way move the mouse while holding down mmb.
Since rotating means rotating around something you have to be aware about the something you rotate around. By default you rotate around the center of the 3d view. In blender you can zoom in two ways. To zoom the view ether scroll the wheel on your mouse or hold control while pressing down the middle mouse button.