how do you make it so that when going into top view, it sits on the top view drawing?

Question

I can't rotate the object, or other wise it will ruin it for the side view and front view with the background image. Help!

Answer 1 · 2020-09-17T11:32:13Z

replied September 17, 2020 11:32am

If you can't rotate the object, then you should rotate the background image.

This has not always been possible but it can be done in 2.79+ and even in some older versions of Blender. Don't know exactly what the first version was that had a rotation for the background images...

Answer 2 · 2020-09-17T14:12:48Z

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replied September 17, 2020 2:12pm

Yeah, I'm able to rotate the background image. But if you notice in the video at 6:03. He goes to top view and the object is already aligned with the top view of the drawing. How?

Answer 3 · 2020-09-17T17:24:08Z

Jonathan Lampel replied September 17, 2020 5:24pm

Spikey is right on! I already moved or rotated the background images into place before starting the video.

Answer 4 · 2020-09-17T18:00:53Z

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replied September 17, 2020 6:00pm

Ok so you have more than 1 background image is what you mean?

Update: nevermind, i was so blind that i could add another background image. pay no mind to my question.

Answer 5 · 2020-09-17T18:04:38Z

Jonathan Lampel replied September 17, 2020 6:04pm

All good! Glad it worked out