Frame selection?

[DavidGirard5926]

I'm wondering if there is a Maya-style Frame Selected / Zoom to extents option. It kind of drives me crazy having to manually frame my working part.

[TannerReid]

Hi, David,

Have you tried using the named views feature?  (If this isn't what you were talking about, just let me know).

It allows you to save a zoom/angle of the view and you can return to it any time.

Whenever you've got your view where you want it, right-click the "named views" folder at the top of the browser, and select "New Named View."  It'll show up in that folder, and whenever you click on a named view, it will bring to the camera to that position.  Once it's made, you can name the view by clicking twice on it (as opposed to double-clicking).

Is this what you were asking for?  If not just let me know and we'll figure out what you need.

Thanks!
Tanner

PS - just in case you were talking about zooming to fit everything in the frame, there's a button on the navigation toolbar that will zoom to fit.  It'll bring the everything that's visible to within the window so you can see it all.

[DavidGirard5926]

I don't generally go to the exact same spot so it's not a solution, unfortunately. For instance, I just spent an hour selecting and extruding some faces on a bunch of different components and want to work this way, like I would in Maya: 

 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990437/fit_workflow_maya.mp4

[innovatenate · Accepted solution]

The zoom to window command on the right click menu will allow you to center and zoom to a face selection. Below is an Autodesk Screencast that shows how this feature works. 

http://autode.sk/1S0icGh

Does this help? Let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

[DavidGirard5926]

ya, that's great. Thanks. It would be great if there was a hotkey for that. Is it possible to script that with Python?

[Anonymous]

Would love a hotkey editor and add all different actions. But "RMB > Find in Window" works for now, I guess. 🙂

[PsykomantaBrain]

Sorry for the necro, but I wanted to add my +1 to having hotkeys for the Find in Window/Timeline/Browser commands. It would really improve usability, as looking around is the primary interaction with anything.

Cheers