How come I can't see my bones in orthographic view? i'm trying to model a rig using x mirror but I can't see the bones even though i'm in editmode. i want to extrude a bone on x axis so that two bones extrue using x-mirror. it donest work in persp view and in tutorials they use ortho view.
x-mirror is not view dependent, and is dependent on the bone names (i.e. ending with .L, .R) 
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