Head over to File – User Preferences and select the Input tab. Let’s see how we can assign our own shortcut to the View Selected option. Thankfully, Blender is endlessly customisable. So what can we do, if we don’t want to invest into more hardware? Re-mapping the keyboard shortcut to something usable springs to mind.
There is an option under File – User Preferences that lets users like me emulate one, and it works with most keyboard shortcuts – but NOT for the View Selected shortcut. But the default doesn’t work, because I don’t have a Number Pad. I do this a lot, so I really want this as a usable shortcut on my keyboard. View Selected is accessible from the View menu, and by default it’s mapped to NUMPAD +. It frames the selected object(s) and lets us tumble the camera around them. One of the many useful shortcuts in Blender is View Selected. While those aren’t expensive, some of us just don’t want to use another gadget that clutters our desks (be that at home or in our coffee shop). That’s because many of them rely on us having a full-size keyboard or an additional Number Pad. On standard Mac keyboards and laptops, some of the handy Blender shortcuts are hard to find.
