seblague/blender-shortcuts

Keyboard shortcut listing for some of my Blender tutorials

Blender-Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcut listing of common commands used in my Blender tutorials.

View:

• 1 - front view.

• 3 - side view.

• 5 - toggle between perspective and orthographic.
  (Note: you must use the numpad keys for this, not the top row of number keys. If you do not have a numpad, enable 'emulate numpad' in the Input section of the user preferences. This will allow you to use the top row of numbers).

• H - hide selected (Alt + H to unhide).

• Z - toggle wireframe/solid shading.

• Shift + C - reset 3d cursor to centre of scene.

Mode:

• Tab - switch between object and edit mode.

Selection:

• A - select everything (unless something is already selected, in which case unselect everything).
• B + left mouse drag - box selection (middle mouse drag deselects instead).
• C + left mouse drag - brush selection tool (middle mouse drag deselects instead. Use scrollwheel to change brush size).
• L - selects all vertices joined to the one under the cursor (hold down Shift to deselect instead).
• Alt + right click - select edge loop.

Transform:

• G - move tool.
• R - rotation tool (double tap R to enter 'trackball rotation' mode).
• S - scale tool (Alt + S to shrink/fatten in edit mode).
• While using transform tool, entering a number will allow you to set exact values for the transformation.
• Press X or Y or Z (while using tool such as grab/rotate/scale) - constrain the transformation to that axis.
• Hold down Ctrl - enables snapping.
• Hold down Shift - allows for smaller adjustments while using tools like move/rotate/scale.
• Period/fullstop - change pivot to 3d cursor.
• Comma - change pivot to mesh centre (or object origin in object mode).

General:

• X - delete selection.
• Shift + D - duplicate selection.
• Shift + A - create new mesh/object.

Edit mode:

• E - extrude selection.

• F - fill face.

• P - separate selected mesh into new object.

• Alt + M - merge selected vertices.

• Ctrl + R - loopcut tool (cursor position determines location, orientation of cut. Use scrollwheel to increase/decrease number of cuts).

• W - 'specials' menu (subdivide, remove doubles, shading mode, smooth mesh, etc).

• Ctrl + E - edges menu (edge sliding, and others).

• Ctrl + Tab - mesh selection mode (vertex/edge/face).

• Ctrl + N - recalculate normals of selected vertices (use this if your mesh has strange lighting defects). If editting bones, this will recalculate the bone roll instead.

Object mode:

• Ctrl + J - join two selected objects into single mesh.
• Ctrl + A - apply transformation on selected object.
• Ctrl + P - parent first selected object/s to last selected object.

Pose mode:

• Ctrl + C - copy pose of selected bones.
• Shift + Ctrl + V - paste copied pose onto other side of rig.

Menus:

• Spacebar - search bar (useful for finding tools if you forget the shortcut).
• N - opens/closes properties panel.
• T - opens/closes tool shelf.