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Blender Shortcut Guide

There are a ton of operations in Blender. This page is a collection of some of the favorites that I don't want to forget.

Add Vertex

  • Enter edit mode
  • Ctrl + left click

Apply Duplicated Frames

  • Ctrl + Shift + A

Boolean Operations

  • Select 2 objects and hit (W)

Hide and Unhide

  1. (H)
  2. (Alt + H)

Add an armature

  1. (Space) > Add > Armature

Armature mirroring

  1. Click on the armature
  2. Switch to Editing mode (F9)
  3. Choose the axis you want to mirror
  4. When extruding a new bone, press (Shift + E) to extrude mirrored along the chosen axis

Enter pose mode

  1. Select a bone
  2. (Ctrl)+(Tab)

Assign an object to an armature

  1. Select the object
  2. Select the bone
  3. (Ctrl)+(p) for "parent"

Clear Parent

  1. (Alt)+(p)

Unwrap and texture

  1. Enter edit mode and select the faces you want to unwrap
  2. (u) for "unwrap"

Pin vertexes

  1. Enter the UV Editor
  2. (P) P for "pin"

Transform Properties Dialog

  1. (N)

Center view on active selection

  1. (.) on the numpad

Center view on the cursor

  1. (c)

Box Cut View

  1. (Alt + B) To create a box cut
  2. (Alt + B) Again to resize

Loop select edges

  1. Shift + Right Click
  2. Shift + Alt + Right Click

Disconnect vertexes to create a new mesh

  1. (P) while in edit mode

Merge two separate meshes into a single mesh

  1. (Ctrl)+(J)

Weight bones using bone heat

  1. Select the parent mesh
  2. Shift + Click the armature
  3. (Ctrl) + (P)
  4. Choose the create using bone heat from the menu

Convert triangles to quads

  1. (Alt) + (j)

Good Tutorials