alt Hacker NewsI wouldn’t call Blender’s UI particularly great either. The assumption that you have three mouse buttons and a separate number pad is pretty crazy.
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ben-schaaf • last Sunday at 5:34 PM
Blender has multiple options for emulating a middle mouse button. I can use blender just fine on my laptop with a touchpad.
As for the numpad you can use the tilde key or alt+drag to switch views. There's also a handy gizmo.
mghackerlady • yesterday at 4:06 PM
Those are, and at the time of blenders creation were, assumptions that should be made for workstations. Things objectively work better with more buttons
Three buttons mice have been the standard for well over 20 years. I'll give you that when blender was first released, three button mice were not common.
Those assumptions are only crazy if you're an Apple user or a laptop user who uses a touchpad to 3d model.