How to translate orientation from the reference image to blender?

[Hanoch Arega]

If I will do it by myself (outside of blender) this will be my understanding. 

• Front View (Screen & buttons)
• Back View (Cartridge slot, battery cover)
• Right View (between Front & Back)
• Left View (Left profile view from Front View)
• Top View (Top profile view from Front View)

In a video is there a reason why Top View become the Screen & buttons? or is this just a personal chooses? do we even need to worry about how to chose which one assigned to which direction? (assuming the reference image is given, like what we have in this course)

[Grady Pruitt]

I think it’s a matter of preference… Typically, though, either front or top view is used as the “frame of reference”. In this case, top view was likely used because if you see a handheld game console sitting on a table face up… that would be like looking at it from “top view”, so that would be the frame of reference all the local axes would use. In this case, if you used “front view” then the “default” position would be of it standing up on it’s end.

[Martin Bergwerf]

Yes, exactly like Grady says. 

And it’s totally up to you how you call each View. Just name them in a way that makes sense to you.

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