From the course: Rhino 6: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts.

Align the viewport camera

Align the viewport camera

- [Narrator] Did you ever try to get your viewport to look exactly at some off-angled geometry? I mean like exactly perpendicular? Well, it's easy to do with the Orient Camera command. So hey, let's check it out. So, a little background here, all OrthoViews are aligned by default. That means, when we go from the front view, the camera is perfectly aligned to that front view construction plane. Another way to say that, it's much easier to create, edit, measure as all your work is constrained to that view and construction plane that you're looking at. So, how do we do that in a weird angle and the prospective window? In this example, we're going to change the logo, as you can see here in the right view, from PEAR to GRAPE. Okay, I'm going to double-click on the prospective view port here just so that we can zoom in and kind of see what's going on here. So, you don't always have to build stuff flat on the ground and…

Contents