• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Don’t rotate orthographic views

  Posted by Paul Roper on February 17, 2014 at 1:27 pm

  Hello,

  I occasionally inadvertently rotate an orthographic (left, right, top) view. I cannot see why this would ever be useful, and it’s really annoying having to switch to another view and then back again to reset it. Is there some preference or setting hidden away somewhere to disable this silly behaviour? Or maybe a keyboard shortcut to reset the view?

  Many thanks for any suggestions,

  Paul

  Jack Cook replied 12 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Adam Trachtenberg

  February 17, 2014 at 4:12 pm

  Yeah, this was a really unfortunate change and there’s no way to prevent it. But you can correct it pretty easily by holding down the shift key and rotating back to the proper angle.
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  Paul Roper

  February 17, 2014 at 4:16 pm

  Thanks! I didn’t realise shift would constrain a view rotation.

  – Paul
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  Brian Jones

  February 17, 2014 at 11:42 pm

  It’s also possible to Cmd/Ctrl-shift-Z to undo the accidental camera move
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  Jack Cook

  February 19, 2014 at 12:44 pm

  I find it quite useful in the Top view to be able to rotate it, in fact, I’ve wanted to be able to do this for some time. Maybe Maxon can put in some kind of lock button to prevent unwanted rotation of the view. And then when you unlock it you can rotate it.

  Jack

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