This concept is also handy if you want to just have an orthographic camera. Create a primitive, and use the magnet tool to attach it to a face. This time I'll go with the green face:

		Now it is stuck perpendicular to the face we want to look at. Again staying in object coordinates will allow you to use the right mouse button, and the alignment won't go all wonky. Press "view from object " and you see that it is aligned perfectly with the green face. When making the camera object I swept and quad divided the top face to show that the alignment was straight. If you use a simple cube, none of this geometry will show.

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