Sculpture Final Project Update: Blender for Dummies

Sculpture Final Project Update

This week I downloaded blender and began watching a few tutorials. I figured the first thing that I would want to learn is the key commands. I knew that it would be a challenge to go from my typical Illustrator and Photoshop over to Blender. Especially if the keys are way off. I will be working with blender primarily on my Mac and most of the tutorials have stated that their are a series of mouse clicks that help while building. That will be interesting considering Macs have personal click selections (Ex. right click is a two finger touch on the pad or control click).

Here is a list of Hotkeys and what they do in Blender.

N U M E R I C 

KEY || Function

1 (One) || Front View
Ctrl+1 || Back View
2 (Two) || Rotate View Up
Ctrl+2 || Pan View Up

3 (Three) || Left Side View

Ctrl+3 || Right Side View

4 (Four) || Rotate View Left

Ctrl+4 || Pan View Left

5 (Five) || Toggle Perspective, "Orthographic View"

6 (Six) || Rotate View Right

Ctrl+6 || Pan View Right

7 (Seven) || Top View

Ctrl+7 || Bottom View

8 (Eight) || Rotate View Down

Ctrl+8 || Pan View Down

9 (Nine) || Redraw Screen

0 (Zero) || Camera View

Ctrl+Alt+0 || Set Camera to Viewpoint

/ (Forward Slash) || Toggle Local View

. (Period) || Zoom on Selection

+ (Plus) || Zoom Into View

K E Y B O A R D 

KEY || Function 

A || Toggle Select All/None

Alt+A || Play Animation in View

Shift+A || Show Add Menu

C || Circle (Brush) Select

Shift+D || Duplicate

Alt+D || Linked Duplicate

E (Edit Mode) || Extrude

F (Edit Mode) || Create Face/Edge

G || Grab/Move

Alt+G || Clear Location

H || Hide Selected

Alt+H || Reveal All

I || Insert Keyframe

Ctrl+J || Join Selected Objects 

L(Edit Mode) || Select Linked Verticals

Shift+L (Edit Mode) || Deselect Linked Verticals

M || Move Selection to layer

Ctrl+M || Mirror Selection

N || Show Properties Region

Ctrl+N || New Blender Session

Ctrl+N(Edit Mode) || Calculate Normals Outside

O (Edit Mode) || Enable Proportional Editing

P(Edit Mode) || Separate to New Object

Ctrl+P || Make Parent

Alt+P || Clear Parent

R || Rotate

Alt+R || Clear Rotation

S || Scale

Alt+S || Clear Scale

U (Edit Mode) || Unwrap Mesh

V  || Toggle Vertex Paint Mode

W (Edit Mode) || Specials Menu

Ctlr+S || Save File

X || Delete Selection

Clrl+Z || Undo

Ctlr+Shift+Z || Redo

Spacebar || Show Search Menu

Shift+Spacebar || Maximize Editor Area

Ctrl+Spacebar || Toggle Manipulator

Alt+Spacebar || Change Manipulator Orientation

Tab || Toggle Edit Mode

Shift+Tab || Toggle Snapping

List created from a series of youtube videos and cross checked with Blender for Dummies.