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Object navigation disappeared - How to get it back? [duplicate]

I was following along this tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QAGpxV36wM and got to the 10 minute mark, and just learned about object duplication and snap to grid (To stack some cubes). ...
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Viewport view goes into pivot mode after applying rotation or scale

When I change scale or rotation, or move a vertex, I use a single LMB click or press enter to apply the change. The viewport immediately goes into a pivot mode, rotating my view around the object or ...
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In camera view, how do you zoom past the point where blender stops zooming?

How do you zoom past the point where blender stops zooming and still stay in orthogonal mode? I'd like to avoid using ., as it switches to perspective. I tried all ...
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Zoom View - Delta parameter

I would like to ask what the "Delta" parameter in the "view3d.zoom" operator is responsible for? Changing this value doesn't seem to make any changes to the zooming in and out ...
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In walk navigation, is there a way to prevent camera from walking through objects?

I am recording the camera walk navigation movement (Like a gameplay) and I don't want it to pass through walls and other objects. Is there a way to do that in blender? I also had the idea of adding ...
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Trackpad Navigation: Invert Pan Direction

Is it possible to invert or reverse the orientation of panning with a laptop that is using blender numpad emulation? Currently, I use the shift key and two fingers to pan left and right: Sliding to ...
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Is there a way to roll the camera in walk navigation?

I need to be able to Roll the camera (rotate around the view axis) when doing walk navigation. (Think of a fighter jet doing a roll maneuver as it flies through a narrow canyon.) With WASD, I can ...
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Huion drawing tablet user, encountering certain keys and functions not doing as advertised from tutorial videos

Equipment is LG Gram laptop, Huion pen tablet and a wireless 3rd party keyboard. I'e emulated 3 button mice, and the numpad due to a slim 3rd party wireless KB I'e watched a few vids on key remapping ...
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Change blender navigation to keyboard? something like unreal?

is it possible to change blender's navigation to something like unreal? via keyboard Does anyone know if there is a way (code, addon, preferences, etc.) to add interface navigation to Blender from ...
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VR Navigation with Gravity

When navigating with VR using the "VR Scene Inspection" add-on, is there a way to enable gravity for the viewer while moving? For example, when using Blender's normal walk navigation (not VR)...
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What are some general tips/pieces of advice for speeding up navigation in the 3D Viewport?

I was handed a massive file recently where the 3D viewport struggles to keep up with my mouse commands (panning, zooming, selecting, etc.), even though my machine should have excellent performance on-...
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Navigation not working in layout, what to do?

After approaching the object, the navigation in the layout completely stopped working and keyboard shortcuts with the mouse wheel completely stopped working
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NDOF settings for local and global views

Not sure if it's just me (noob with SpaceMouse). When in local view, I move the 3D navigation mouse thinking as I'm moving the object while staring at it. When in global view, I move the 3D navigation ...
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Is there any way to orbit around the object instead of a 3D cursor?

I would like to know if there is a way to orbit my viewport around a selected object in Blender, instead of orbiting around the 3D cursor, without having to manually set the 3D cursor to the object ...
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I am a giant in my scene very large

I have a very huge scene, and i walk (navigation) , it take few step to cross the terrain, and on another project my scene is tiny, but the walk navigation is ok , it's take a lot of step to cross. In ...
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walk around on a terrain (landscape)

Is there a way to limit the camera to a landscape, when i use gravity activated, for my walk around navigation, because when the camera comes outside, it fall, because of gravity
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Left shift not working in Blender only

So, recently my left SHIFT key doesn't work. It is recognized, as I see some info in the bottom bar as soon as I press SHIFT. I went into the hotkey configuration and the hotkey for viewport rotation ...
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Custom 3D View hotkeys don't work in Sculpting

I'm trying to set up custom hotkeys for navigation in 3D view, but they don't work in Sculpting mode. Something like Space+LMB for Pan View works everywhere except Sculpting mode. I deleted all other ...
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Blender 3.4.1 - Pan Left/Right using Shift+Scroll Up/Down

What preferences need to be changed such that holding the Shift key down while scrolling the mouse wheel up results in panning the 3D viewport (and 2D viewport) to the left? Similarly, pressing Shift ...
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Stop using action Camera

I have a problem wich I can’t solve by myself and a lot of Google research couldn’t help me, but I think it’s easy problem. I looked an tutorial for using a action camera with walk navigation for a ...
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Up and down view rotation is limited in walk navigation

As can be seen in the GIF i cannot rotate down or up freely as in regular view port (not in walk navigatio) any setting i am missing or is this a set behavior ? Additional info: as I drag the mouse ...
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My camera won't stop in walk navigation mode

In walk navigation mode, I press E to move the camera up, but the camera keeps moving up without stopping. When I press E, I want the camera to move a little like when I press WASD.
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Problem while using walk navigation

I'm using Blender 2.92.0. I'm just working with the default cube. Everything in walk navigation is working in my pc, but when i'm pressing spacebar for teleporting, when using walk navigation, nothing ...
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Can't map D+mousebuttons to navigate the viewport

D+MMB for zooming works great, but D+RMB (rotate view) and D+LMB (pan view) work in Object Mode but not in Edit Mode, where they get superseded by the contextual menu and regular selecting ...
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mouse cursor leaves blender window when using walk/fly navigation

whenever I use the walk/fly mode I cant move my cursor too much or else it will go off the screen on to another monitor. sometimes the viewport even appears upside down or some other odd way. is there ...
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Is there anyway to change the focal length of the navigation camera?

Is there anyway to change the focal length of the navigation camera? When I do an archviz walkthrough, the view feels tighter than it should and I would like to adjust the focal length when doing a ...
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Navigation of Viewport not possible to do

I just downloaded and installed Blender, but I'm stuck with navigating the scene. I can't rotate or interact with the scene. When I click LMB and drag, it doesn't rotate the scene. This happens ...
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navigate in window without navigating the camera

I am having a weird problem with my navigation. The issue occurred just today without changing any of my settings: I am looking through the camera (Numpad 0), and I want to navigate/zoom in and out ...
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Help!! Blender wont Zoom. Says moved object to master collection instead

Really need help here. Blender wont zoom in. It will zoom out all I want but when I scroll to go in it just gives me a message at the bottom that 'objects moved to master collection'. Anyone know how ...
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Blender camera window

I am setting camera for my render. But my camera Window is so small. the tutorial am following to learn Blender has a bigger screen. Can I make my Blender camera window bigger? I cant see anything ...
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Walk/Fly navigation Blender 3.2

I just updated my version of Blender on Steam to the new version 3.2, the problem is that I use a lot the walk mode and it doesn't work (Shift F). I looked in the preferences-Keymap but I can't find ...
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Can't pan/orbit at all anymore

OS: Windows 10 Version: 2.93 Yesterday blender worked fine for modeling, and no changes have been made since, but now pan/orbit won't work. I can zoom. But can't do anything else. What I've tried: ...
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Objects visible in camera view until click middle mouse button; not visible outside in any other view

Everything I want visible on screen: has been unhidden visibility has been set to show in Viewports I did ⇧ Shift + C and then Frame All I have selected an object in the Outliner and turned on its ...
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3dconnexion mouse locks rotation when in Top view

My Spacemouse locks up in any of the orthogonal views (Top, Left, Right, Front or Back). I have set Auto perspective on (and this works for my other input devices), but not for my 3d mouse. Which ...
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Using Alt+G to move selected object to the center of the grid causes objects to be (seemingly) parented

beginner here! I'm using Blender 3.1 I am following Blender Guru's tutorial making donuts. In his 3.0 tutorial part 6, there is a step to select the light source and use Alt+G to move it to the center ...
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Maintain camera pointed at object while navigating past it?

I'm recording camera movement while moving around using walk mode. While moving, I'd like the camera to remain pointed at a particular object (e.g. an empty). E.g. in the scene below, I'd like to walk ...
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How to move view forwards / backwards

I'm very new to Blender, and am struggling to even move the view / camera I can rotate, pan up/down and left/right, zoom in/out... but I can't actually move forward / backward? Is the only way to move ...
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Blender with Huion pen and Windows ink

I have a Huion pen and I set up a button to middle click to rotate the view. It's working everywhere BUT Blender. There's nothing related to pen buttons in the preferences, is there an extra step to ...
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Rotating the viewport

Is there a way to rotate the 3D Viewport as if rotating your head? I don't want to "rotate around the current selection" or around where I click, etc. Something like when you move the mouse ...
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Referring to Blender 3.1. Why is there now a pie menu in the outliner by default

Why is there now a pie menu in the outliner. Now I cannot select an item in the outliner unless I hold the control key.
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Fly mode - mouse navigation does not work (2.79/Ubuntu)

I have a problem with the fly mode on ubuntu and Blender 2.79. Everything was working perfectly a few hours ago, and suddenly the navigation control is not responding at all. The forward and backward ...
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Touchpad Gestures on Linux

Hey there fellow Blender heads, I'm making the jump to Ubuntu from Mac. Blender's support for the Mac touchpad was really great. Is there a way to setup the equivalent in Linux?
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Basics: Retrieve Node attribute definition boxes and noodles

On save and re-open, objects display the node attributes defined previously, but in Shader Editor, how do you display the definition dialogs and noodles? (The screen is black, even when an object is ...
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Can I change the camera to spin on axis to turn instead of rotate around an object?

I've been working on a game where I make all my assets in blender and transfer them to unreal engine. I've come to prefer the unreal engine viewport navigation and was wondering if there is a way to ...
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Material, UV and objects - Interface question

A newbie here. I create an object > Add an UV map > Apply some texture. I then duplicate the object, The 2 objects are rendered properly, they show the material correctly. I then want to change ...
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How to open shading menu or select material preview?

Here is the video, I can't open shading menu, how to open it? Is there other way to select material preview?
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Easily navigate around a rotated object

I find it kind of cumbersome to edit an object that has been rotated. I know I can set the navigation to „local“ to make things easier, but then I still cannot use numpad 1, 3, 7, etc. to easily jump ...
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NDOF device not working when I'm in "OOO orthographic" view

I'm using "3Dconnexion Space Mouse Compact" as my NDOF device. The 3D mouse works great, except I can't orbit using the device when I'm in Front/Right/Top orthographic view (which are ...
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How can I scroll to the bottom of the object list quickly

I have a cactus with 3000 spines and I don't want to scroll all the way down to select them. How can I do this quickly?
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I start blender from the command line with the -d option but didn't see any command output [closed]

I want to navigate the code, so I start blender from the command line with the -d option but didn't see any command output on console, how can I print command to console I only got these output, and ...
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