Overview

In this tutorial, I present methods to control your view in Blender for modeling, animating, and more.

Orbit: MMB

Pan: Shift + MMB

Dolly/Zoom

• Dolly in/zoom in: mouse scroll in (away from you) 
• Dolly out/zoom out: mouse scroll out (towards you)

Freecam

• Shift + ` to enter freecam mode
• wasd to move, hold shift to speed up, hold alt to slow down
• Tab toggles gravity
• v to jump
• Exit freecam mode with left-click (to go back to before you entered freecam mode) or ESC (enter normal cam mode at the current view)

Numpad

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• Ctrl + Alt + 0 → Sets user view as camera
• Local view shows only selected objects.
• View selected shows local view of selected objects.
• . → Center the camera on selected object(s)
• Button –> The configuration
• Ctrl + Button –> Opposite view if possible

Emulated Numpad

• For use with keyboards without a numpad where the standard number keys are used in their place.
• Edit → Preferences → Input → Emulate Numpad

References

• https://www.dummies.com/web-design-development/how-to-change-blender-views-with-the-numeric-keypad/
• https://all3dp.com/2/blender-how-to-move-the-camera/
• http://www.blenderhut.com/use-blender-without-number-pad/
• https://youtu.be/gTZBBuZMquQ
• https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/3dview/navigate/camera_view.html