Blender3d HotKeys

Method 1 Click Help menu / Splash Screen In the popup windows. select to change Preset  to Maya Method 2 Click File menu / User preferences... Click Input tab Select…

Modifiers: subdivision surface Make sure you are in object mode (click 'Object Mode') at the bottom menu . RMB to select the object to modify. Click 'Add Modifiers' to modify the selected object…

Edge Loop Slide This allows you to make "cut" in a mesh, letting modify it further. Ctrl-R press "CTR+R" and hover your mouse (without click) over the edge of the…

Extruding In edit mode, you can select a line, vertex, or plane, and extrude, or, extend it. to do this, select the thing you want to extrude, then press "E"

Merging In edit mode you can select two or more vertexes, and merge them together. To do this, go into edit mode, select the vertexes you want to merge, press…

Selecting in Edit Mode In edit mode there are three ways to select things, you can either select individual vertexes, lines or planes. To switch, click any one of the…

Adding a Mesh to add a mesh, go to the "Add" menu, from there you will find many sub menus, the top one being "Mesh". Alternatively, press shift-A key

The 3D Cursor The 3D cursor is exactly what it sounds like, it's a cursor in the 3D view. By default it starts in the origin, but you can move…

Rotation Scale and Translation First I want to make note of the arrows that appear when you select an object. those are the Axes. The red arrow is the X…

Object Mode and Edit Mode The two modes we will be using in this tutorial are: Object Mode This lets you select objects and move them around. Edit Mode This…