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> In Blender I just have to press 1, 3 or 7 on my numpad for front, side or top view as those keys correspond to X, Y and Z axes. Wonderfully intuitive and resp

> In Blender I just have to press 1, 3 or 7 on my numpad for front, side or top view as those keys correspond to X, Y and Z axes. Wonderfully intuitive and responsive. If you have a numeric keypad. None of my laptops have one; neither does my main machine. None of them have a middle mouse button either. The lack of those two things make an incredible amount of the Blender UX inaccessible to me. It's like making your site only work with Javascript and forgetting that some people have it turned off.

Inityx 6y ago
There are checkboxes in the settings menu to substitute the number row and alt keys respectively
terhechte 6y ago
You can also buy external numpads that connect over USB. I have one of those.
aidos 6y ago
I’ve been learning it recently on my laptop. Use the Emulate Numpad option in the settings. The other thing I’ve done is remapped ; to numpad-/ (I think, whatever it is that allows me to focus on an object). I suspect that ultimately you’ll just want a full keyboard because there are a bunch of variations that are probably useful to power users. The other thing is that my MacBook doesn’t really want to render anything without also burning the house down, so I’m looking to build a desktop machine anyway.
atoav 6y ago
Which is why there is an option called emulate numpad under Blender Preferences > Input. The same is true for the middle mouse button (Emulate 3 button mouse). They both work fine, the numpad one is one of the first things I activate. Not only is this option at the place where you would expect it to be, it is also not hard to find hints to it online.
oefnak 6y ago
Missing a middle mouse button is really easy to fix by using a €15 external mouse.
manifoldgeo 6y ago
You may already know this, but there's an option in the Preferences menu called "Emulate Numpad"[1] that will make the numerical keys above the top row of letters behave as if they were on the numpad. There's also a setting called "Emulate 3-Button Mouse"[2] that will allow you to use Blender with a trackpad or other setup with no middle mouse button. References: [1] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preferences/input.html#keyboard https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preference... [2] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preferences/input.html#mouse https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preference...

Inityx 6y ago

There are checkboxes in the settings menu to substitute the number row and alt keys respectively

terhechte 6y ago

You can also buy external numpads that connect over USB. I have one of those.

aidos 6y ago

I’ve been learning it recently on my laptop. Use the Emulate Numpad option in the settings. The other thing I’ve done is remapped ; to numpad-/ (I think, whatever it is that allows me to focus on an object). I suspect that ultimately you’ll just want a full keyboard because there are a bunch of variations that are probably useful to power users. The other thing is that my MacBook doesn’t really want to render anything without also burning the house down, so I’m looking to build a desktop machine anyway.

atoav 6y ago

Which is why there is an option called emulate numpad under Blender Preferences > Input. The same is true for the middle mouse button (Emulate 3 button mouse). They both work fine, the numpad one is one of the first things I activate. Not only is this option at the place where you would expect it to be, it is also not hard to find hints to it online.

oefnak 6y ago

Missing a middle mouse button is really easy to fix by using a €15 external mouse.

manifoldgeo 6y ago

You may already know this, but there's an option in the Preferences menu called "Emulate Numpad"[1] that will make the numerical keys above the top row of letters behave as if they were on the numpad. There's also a setting called "Emulate 3-Button Mouse"[2] that will allow you to use Blender with a trackpad or other setup with no middle mouse button. References: [1] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preferences/input.html#keyboard https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preference... [2] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preferences/input.html#mouse https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/preference...