Blender For Dummies

From Blender For Dummies, 2nd Edition by Jason van Gumster

When it comes to Blender, you can save time in many ways. Memorizing common mouse actions and numeric keypad hotkeys in Blender or common keyboard hotkeys in Blenders 3D View help you work more efficiently in Blender. If memorization isnt your thing, you can even print lists of these mouse actions and hotkeys and refer to them whenever you need to.

Common Mouse Actions in Blender

Blender makes it a point to use as many buttons on your mouse as possible. You have five fingers; you may as well get full use of them. This table gives you some of the most commonly used mouse behaviors. Action Left-click Ctrl+left-click (edit mode) Ctrl+left-click+drag Right-click Shift+right-click Alt+right-click (edit mode) Middle-click+drag Shift+middle-click+drag Ctrl+middle-click+drag Result Place 3D cursor Quick-extrude Lasso selection Select Add to selection Edge/Face loop select Rotate view Pan view Zoom view

Common Numeric Keypad Hotkeys in Blender

The numeric keypad gives you a high-speed means of navigating the 3D View in Blender. The following table explains some of the more useful and common hotkeys that involve the numeric keypad. (Note: If youre using a laptop that doesnt have a numeric keypad, you can enable the Emulate Numpad check box in the Input section of User Preferences and use the numbers along the top of your keyboard instead of the numeric keypad.) Hotkey 1 Ctrl+1 2 Ctrl+2 3 Ctrl+3 4 Description Front view Back view Rotate view up Pan view up Left side view Right side view Rotate view left

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Ctrl+4 5 6 Ctrl+6 7 Ctrl+7 8 Ctrl+8 9 0 Ctrl+Alt+0 / . (dot/period) +

Pan view left Toggle perspective/orthographic view Rotate view right Pan view right Top view Bottom view Rotate view down Pan view down Redraw screen

Camera view
Set camera to viewport Toggle local view Zoom on selection Zoom into view

Common Keyboard Hotkeys in Blenders 3D View

Blender is designed to be used with one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse. Nearly every key on a standard keyboard is assigned to some task within Blender, and sometimes more than one task. For example, the numbers across the top of the keyboard reveal each of the first ten Blender layers. Alt+Any number shows each of the last ten layers. Shift+Any number allows you to show more multiple layers simultaneously. And thats not all! The following table shows some of the more commonly used hotkeys while working in Blender. Hotkey A Alt+A Shift+A C Shift+D Alt+D E (edit mode) F (edit mode) G Alt+G H Description Toggle select all/none Play animation in view Show Add menu Circle (Brush) select Duplicate Linked duplicate Extrude Create face/edge Grab/move Clear location Hide selected

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Alt+H I Ctrl+J L (edit mode) Shift+L (edit mode) M Ctrl+M N Ctrl+N Ctrl+N (edit mode) O (edit mode) P Ctrl+P Alt+P R Alt+R S Alt+S U (edit mode) V W (edit mode) Ctrl+W X Ctrl+Z Ctrl+Shift+Z Spacebar Shift+Spacebar Ctrl+Spacebar Alt+Spacebar Tab Shift+Tab

Reveal all Insert keyframe Join selected objects Select linked vertices Deselect linked vertices Move selection to layer Mirror selection Show Properties region New Blender session Calculate normals outside Proportional edit mode Run game engine Make parent Clear parent Rotate Clear rotation Scale Clear scale Unwrap mesh Toggle Vertex Paint mode Specials menu Save file Delete selection Undo Redo Show search menu Maximize window Toggle manipulator Change manipulator orientation Toggle Edit mode Toggle snapping

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