Handy Dandy Blender Cheat Sheet
I’m still pretty new to Blender, so sometimes I forget how to do certain things. I made myself a little cheat sheet for the things I most commonly do in Blender and I thought I would share. It’s very basic, but helpful if you are just starting out :)
Handy Dandy Blender Cheat sheet!
G (grab) allows you to pick up and move selected objects.
Press x, y, or z afterwards to constrain the movement to that plane
Type a number afterwards x, y, or z and move the object by that amount
S (scale) allows you to increase or decrease all of your object’s dimensions relative to the little yellow reference point.
Type a number to scale by a fixed amount
R (rotate) allows you to rotate your object
Press x, y, or z afterwards to constrain the rotation to be only around that axis
Type a number afterwards x, y, or z and rotate the object by that amount
B (boarder select) Select any vertices within the square
Hold shift as well and you can deselect
Right mouse button select points
Hold shift to select multiple
Tab enter and exit edit mode
Shift+middle mouse button pan the field of view
Middle mouse button rotate field of view
W brings up menu with remove doubles and subdivides in edit mode
Ctrl+E brings up menu to split edges in edit mode
Alt+C turn curve into a mesh
P bring up menu to separate objects in edit mode
L select a connect section of a mesh
E extrude selection in one direction
N brings up right hand menu with show weights options