Blender can see extremely daunting when you first encounter it, but learning just a few keyboard and mouse commands can bring you a very long way.  That’s exactly what this document is going to describe, and future tutorials will assume you have read this.  I am also assuming you have a) a 3 button mouse with a scroll wheel b) a full numberpad.  You can get by without either, but it makes life a ton more difficult. 

 

 

 

 

First, lets look at how to navigate around the screen.

 

 

 

 

 

Rotating the view

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Using the mouse:

Middle Button + Move

 

Using the keyboard:

Num pad 4: Rotate view left

Num pad 6: Rotate view right

Num pad 8: Rotate view up

Num pad 2: Rotate view down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panning the view

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Using the mouse:

Shift Key + Middle Button + Move

 

Using the Keyboard:

Num Pad 4 + Control Key: Pan left

Num Pad 6 + Control Key: Pan right

Num Pad 8 + Control Key: Pan up

Num Pad 4 + Control Key: Pan down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zooming the view

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Using the mouse:

Scroll wheel Up/Down

or

Control + Middle Button + Up/Down

 

Using the Keyboard:

Numberpad + Key: Zoom in

Numberpad – Key: Zoom Out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frame Selected

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Using the keyboard:

Press . on the numberpad

 

 

Description:

This command automatically moves the camera to look centered at the selected object and zooms so object takes up the entire view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selection Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rectangle/Border Select

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Hit the B key to enter border select mode

 

Left click to start selection

 

Draw rectangle around selection

 

Left click again to finish selection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circle Select

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Press C key to start circle selection mode

 

Using the mouse:

Spin the scroll wheel to resize circle

 

Using the keyboard:

  Use + or – keypad keys to resize circle

Move mouse over area to select

Left click to make selection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select All

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Press A to select all

 

Press A again to select nothing

 

 

Note: This selection mode will work on whatever mode is currently selected, be it edit mode, object mode, etc.  If in Edit Mode->Face for example, all faces will be selected.  If in object mode, all objects in the scene will be selected.

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