[Bf-funboard] Workplane?

[Mal]

Yep, I could have shown him how to split the panes, and set up a few 
ortho views within them, and then told him to always use these viewports 
only for adding new objects, but I didn't want to "feature overload" him 
right at the start.

The other way ( resetting rotation ) seemed a bit more straightforward, 
but not as straightforward as just adding the objects, and having them 
in the position he expected them to be in every single time.

It might be an interesting project for some of the developers to sit 
down with a friend or relation who is interested in 3D, and has little 
or no 3D skills, and try to show them how to create say a basic 3D 
environment.  You'll then get an appreciation of how a few quirks of 
Blender makes it very difficult for new users to pickup, and these 
quirks could be easily resolved ( especially if they were toggle-able 
options, where the advanced user could toggle them off again if required )

Mal

>>>He prefered to use the perspective viewport to add objects, and for
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>EVERY single object he added ( due to the primitive aligning to the
>viewport ), I had to show him how to a) come out of edit mode b) reset
>the rotation on the object and b) go back into edit mode.  And this is
>before he starts even basic modelling of the primitive
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>hm, if he wants to use perspective and clean rotation, two additional
>windows will work fine. One or two small orthogonal ones will do the trick.
>you position the cursor in perspective view and add objects by moving into
>one of the xy or xz windows.
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>P H
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