Blender Shortcuts

Debbie's List of Shortcuts

(Not exhaustive, but the ones I personally use a lot)

A more exhaustive list can be found here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Blender_3D:_HotKeys

Universal - General Keys

• Space Opens the Toolbox.
• ⌘ Command, User Preferences
• Tab ↹ Edit Mode
• ⌘ CommandN New File
• ⌘ CommandS Save
• ⌘ CommandX Erase ALL
• ⌘ CommandY Redo
• ⌘ CommandZ Undo
• Q Quit Blender

3D View - General

• T Tool Panel
• N Numbers Panel
• A Select All / Unselect All
• B Block Select
• C Circle Select
• P Seperate. (The opposite of Join)
• CtrlJ Join (The Opposite of Separate)
• W Specials Menu
• ⇧ ShiftS Snap Menu
• ⇧ ShiftA Add Menu
• ⇧ ShiftW Warp
• X Delete

• S Scale / Resize
• R Rotate

3D View - Viewing

• 1 - Front View
• Ctrl-1 - Back View
• 3 - Left side View
• Ctrl+3 - Right side View
• 5 - Toggle between Perspective / Orthographic View
• 7 - Top View
• Ctrl+7 - Bottom View
• 9 - Redraw Screen
• 0 - Camera View
• 2 - Rotate view on Y axis (Up)
• 4 - Rotate view on Z axis (Left, or in an anticlockwise fashion)
• 6 - Rotate view on Z axis (Right, or in a clockwise fashion)
• 8 - Rotate view on Y axis (Down)

3D View - EditMode

• ⌥ OptionRMB Select Edge Loop, CtrlRMB to add more to Selection
• AltCtrlRMB Edge Select
• F Make Edge/Face (If you select two vertices, edge is created. If you select 3 or more, a face is created.
• H Hide Selected (temporarily)
• ⇧ ShiftH Hide Non-Selected (temporarily)
• AltH Reveal all hidden.
• AltJ Join faces.
• K Knife Tool Menu
• X Delete Selected