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Common Mouse Actions in BlenderBlender makes it a point to use as many buttons on your mouse as possible. You have five fingers; you may as well get full use of them. This table gives you some of the most commonly used mouse behaviors.
ActionResultLeft-clickPlace 3D cursorCtrl+left-click (edit mode)Quick-extrudeCtrl+left-click+dragLasso selectionRight-clickSelectShift+right-clickAdd to selectionAlt+right-click (edit mode)Edge/Face loop selectMiddle-click+dragRotate viewShift+middle-click+dragPan viewCtrl+middle-click+dragZoom view. Common Numeric Keypad Hotkeys in BlenderThe numeric keypad gives you a high-speed means of navigating the 3D View in Blender.
Once Blender 2.8 is installed, this is what you will see: The colourful bit in the middle is like a temporary shortcut menu. Common functions are.
The following table explains some of the more useful and common hotkeys that involve the numeric keypad. ( Note: If you’re using a laptop that doesn’t have a numeric keypad, you can enable the Emulate Numpad check box in the Input section of User Preferences and use the numbers along the top of your keyboard instead of the numeric keypad.) HotkeyDescription1Front viewCtrl+1Back view2Rotate view upCtrl+2Pan view up3Left side viewCtrl+3Right side view4Rotate view leftCtrl+4Pan view left5Toggle perspective/orthographic view6Rotate view rightCtrl+6Pan view right7Top viewCtrl+7Bottom view8Rotate view downCtrl+8Pan view down9Redraw screen0Camera viewCtrl+Alt+0Set camera to viewport/Toggle local view. (dot/period)Zoom on selection+Zoom into view. Common Keyboard Hotkeys in Blender’s 3D ViewBlender is designed to be used with one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse. Nearly every key on a standard keyboard is assigned to some task within Blender, and sometimes more than one task. For example, the numbers across the top of the keyboard reveal each of the first ten Blender layers.
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Alt+Any number shows each of the last ten layers. Shift+Any number allows you to show more multiple layers simultaneously. And that’s not all! The following table shows some of the more commonly used hotkeys while working in Blender.