Blender Mastery

The Blender Interface and Workflow

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Blender is free, open-source software for modelling, sculpting, texturing, rendering, animation and more. This track assumes the 3D Modeling Fundamentals concepts and uses Blender 4.x conventions; menus move occasionally between versions.

Navigation

Action Mouse / key
Orbit middle mouse drag
Pan Shift + middle mouse
Zoom scroll wheel
Frame selected numpad . (or View → Frame Selected)
Front / side / top views numpad 1 / 3 / 7
Toggle perspective/orthographic numpad 5

Laptop without a numpad? Enable "Emulate Numpad" and "Emulate 3 Button Mouse" in Preferences → Input.

Modes and essential shortcuts

Shortcut Action
Tab toggle Object / Edit Mode
1 / 2 / 3 (Edit Mode) vertex / edge / face select
G / R / S grab (move) / rotate / scale; type X, Y or Z to constrain
Shift + A add object
E extrude
I inset
Ctrl + R loop cut
Ctrl + B bevel
Ctrl + A apply transforms
N sidebar (dimensions, item properties)
F3 search any operator

Editors and workspaces

Every area of the screen can be any editor: 3D Viewport, Outliner (scene hierarchy), Properties (modifiers, materials, render settings), Shader Editor, UV Editor, Timeline. Workspace tabs (Layout, Modeling, Sculpting, UV Editing, Shading) arrange editors for each task.

Good habits

  • Set units first: Scene Properties → Units (metric, millimetres for printing).
  • Name objects in the Outliner and organise them into collections.
  • Save often; enable File → Save Versions, and keep incremental files (mug_v01.blend, mug_v02.blend).
  • Learn one shortcut a day; speed comes from shortcuts.

Exercise

Set up a scene in millimetres, add a cube, scale it to 40 × 40 × 10 mm using the sidebar, bevel its edges, and organise three objects into named collections. Navigate using only shortcuts.

Check yourself

  • How do you constrain a move to the X axis?
  • Which shortcut searches any command?
  • Why set scene units before modelling?

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