keyboard shortcuts for ViewCube

[Anonymous]

Hi,

It would be very convenient if there was a way to somehow manipulate the arrows of the view cube.

I know there are user commands you can set shortcuts for,  for "top view", "right view", and "front view". But this is limited to only those 3, not all six, and also, you generally don't know without looking at the view cube which face you are looking at, so if I wanted to rotate my view by 90deg to the left, I wouldn't even know which one of those 3 to press, even if one of those 3 would get me there.

I tend to press the arrows arround the view cube quite a bit, along with the rotation arrows.

I have a space mouse to orbit my view, but sometimes when drawing, you want your view to be perfectly normal to the plane you are working on. In which case I will usually press the view cube face that I am already almost perfectly normal too with my space mouse view.

I realize that I can just continue easily clicking the cube without really wasting much effort, but when you do this thousands of times, for thousands of parts, a keyboard shortcut would help a lot.

Honestly, all I really need is a keyboard shortcut to simulate clicking on the viewcube face that I am closest to, but keyboard shortcuts for the arrows would be nice aswell.

Would this be something I could do in iLogic? I've heard of it, but never used it, so I don't want to go learning it and waste my time.

Or perhaps there is already such a commmand that I didnt see that I can assign a keyboard shortcut to.

Thanks for any advice!

Cheers!

[mwighton]

If you need to look at a specific face you can use the 'Look At' command in the 'View' tab.