Blender User Interface

File Shortcuts

• Ctrl-Z: undo
• Shift-Ctrl-Z: redo
• Ctrl-S: save file pie menu

Navigating

• Scroll wheel: zoom
• MMB: rotate
• Shift-MMB: pan
• Shift-S: cursor / origin pie menu
• Shift-C: returns cursor to center

Function Keys

• F1: help
• F2: rename active item
• F3: menu search
• F4: file context menu
• F9: adjust last operation
• F11: show render window
• F12: render current frame

View

• Numpad 0: camera view
• Numpad 1: front
  • Ctrl-Numpad 1: back
• Numpad 3: right
  • Ctrl-Numpad 3: left
• Numpad 7: top
  • Ctrl-Numpad 7: bottom
• ~: view pie menu
• /: solo object
• Z: shading pie menu
• Alt-Z: toggle x-ray
• H: hide
  • Shift-H: hide all but selection
  • Alt-H: unhide all

Select

• LMB: select object (or deselect if selected)
  • Shift-LMB: add to selection (or make active object if already selected; click again to deselect)
• A: select all
  • Alt-A: deselect all
• B: box select
• C: circle select

Transform

• G/S/R: translate ("grab"); scale; rotate
  • G/S/R then X/Y/Z: constrain transformation to selected axis
  • G/S/R then Shift-X/Y/Z: constrain transformation to other two axes (plane)
  • G/S/R then X/Y/Z twice: constrain transformation to selected axis in alternate transform space ("local" is default)
  • Alt-G/S/R: reset transformation
• Ctrl-A: apply transforms
• N (Item tab): transform properties panel

Modes

• Tab: mode pie menu

Object

• Shift-A: add
• Shift-D: duplicate selected object(s)
  • Alt-D: duplicate selected object(s) with linked data
• Ctrl-P: make Active object the parent of all other selected objects
• Alt-P: remove selected child from its parent
• M: move object to collection
• X: delete
• Ctrl-#: subdivide # times

Edit

• E: extrude
• I: inset
• Ctrl-B: bevel (auto applied)
• Ctrl-R: loop cut
• G,G: vertex/edge slide
• K: knife (select vertices, hit Enter when done)
• F: fill face (or create edge from selected vertices)
• M: merge
• Shift-N: recalculate normals
• Ctrl-Shift-N: flip normals