Blender Hotkeys & Shortcuts

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Blender Hotkeys you must know

Center Pivot Point to Object

Object Mode (Press Tab to switch between Object and Edit Mode)

Select the Object
Right Mouse Click
Set Origin to –> Geometry

Object, Set Origin, Origin to 3D Cursor

Blender Isolate Object

Shift+H to isolate the object
Alt+H to Exit the isolate model

Blender Hide Object Shortcut

Select Object
Press H
Press Alt+H to unhide all

Blender Clean Up Mesh

Select the Object
Edit Mode
Press A to Select All
Tab–>Mesh–>Clean Up–>Merge by Distance

Blender Recalculate Normals

Select Object
Pres Tab for Edit Mode
Press A to Select All
Press Alt+N
Select Recalculate Outside

Blender Join Geometry

Select Objects
Press Ctrl+J to join objects

Join & Separate Mesh

Blender Separate Geometry / Faces

Select Object
Press Tab for Edit Mode
Select Faces
Press P

Blender How to Scale the GUI

CTRL+Press Middle Mouse Button

Blender Subdivide Hotkey

Ctrl+1,2,3,4 (etc. not NumPad)

Blender Boolean Hotkey when using Addon Bool Tool

Ctrl+(-) minus on Numpad

Blender Statistics

Overlay, Show Statistics

Blender UVW Unwrap

Select Object, Edit Mode, Faces, Right Mouseclick, UV Unwrap Faces

Tris to Quads

Edit Mode, Select all geo by pressing A, Tab–> Face, Tris to Quads (Alt J)

Show Normals

Select the Overlays –> Geometry –> Face Orientation

Change Normals Direction

Select the mesh –> Edit Mode (using vertex, edge or face)
Select the Faces you would like to flip the Normals
from the Mesh menu upper-left click Normals (ALT+N)
then Flip
Mesh » Normals » Flip

Fill Hole (Cap)

Click the surrounding vertices’s or edges then F will fill the hole

How To Delete Blender Materials

Create a Blender PBR Material

Detach Rig from Mesh

Select the Mesh you want to detach from the RIG. Click ALT+P

Select and Center Object in Viewport

Select the object in the viewport, Click the “.” Period Point on the Numpadto center the object in the viewport

Move Objects into a Different Collection

Select the Object, press “M” shortcut for Move and select the Collection you want to move your selected object

Viewport Shading

Select Collection and Move the Group / Collection Together

Select the Collection within the Outliner
Right Mouseclick–> Select Objects

Look through a selected Camera

Select the Camera–> Click the “0” on the Numpad
Make the selected Camera the Active Camera: Select the Camera –> Click CTRL + Numpad “0”
https://youtu.be/aY04h4ujrlY?feature=shared&t=113

Navigate via the selected Camera

Select the Camera and Click SHIFT+` (Tilt)

Once selected, you can navigate or move the camera with WASD. IMPORTANT: To keep the last Camera Position, you need to CLICK+LEFT MOUSE BUTTON. When clicking the Right Mouse Button, it abbords the current camera position and jumps back to the previous one.

Then Click Esc to get out from the active Camera Mode.

Change the Camera Speed

Scroll the Middle Mouse Button Forward or Backwards to change the speed
By clicking the Middle Mouse Button, you hyper-jump with your camera to the selected object

Camera User Mode

When being in the Camera User Mode, you can do the same with SHIFT+` (Tilt) Key to use your Camera User Mode with the “Fly” Mode (WASD).

Visible Edge Highlights in Viewport

Shade Smooth

Select your object –> Right Click–>Shaded Smooth

Inset Faces (Individual): Double Click “i”
Move Edge along Normals: Press “G” Twice

Selection Faces, Edges, and Loops

Depending on the Mouse Position of a selected Face (Left, Right, Top or Down) the loop selection will be created, when clicking ALT+Left Click and Select.

Welding Vertex Points

Edit mode–>Vertex–>A (to select all vertices)–>M for Weld–>by Distance–>Select the Distance

Select Hidden Faces (Backface and Select Through)

Toggle Xray Mode when selecting.

Material Editor / Shader Object

Display Objects as Bounds

Viewport Display (Wire, Bounds, Solid, Textured)

Add-Ons:

Bool Tool
Machine Tools: https://machin3.gumroad.com/

Layout Editor Type

AO and Composite

Scale Uniform

Hit “N” –> Item Tab
Object Mode –> CTRL A –> SCALE

UVW Unwrapping with Seams

Similar to Zbrush, you define with SEAMS UVW Islands to unwrap them.
Edit Mode –> Select –> Sharp Edges
Sharp Angle –> Set to 30 Degree (This selects all Sharp Edges up to 30 Degree)
Click CTRL + E –> Mark Seam

All Selected Sharp Edges are now DEFINED as SEAMS

Normal Map Faceting

The Normal Map Color Space needs to be set to Non-Color, to not have any artifacts / faceting issues in the Cycles render. The Image Node for the Normal Map needs to be set to non-color data.

Glass Refraction Dispersion

My Blender File

Boolean

First Select the Piece you want to use to Cut (Cutter)
Then SHIFT+CLICL to select the piece you would like to Cut
CTRL+SHIFT+B
Brush Boolean–>Difference

Addons – Loop Tool

SUPER SHORTCUTS MODELING

E – EXTRUDE
ALT+E (Extrude + select Type of Extrusions)
I – INSET
CLICK I – TWICE (Inset single faces)
CTRL+B (Bevel)

Dissolve Floating Vertices

Select one of the vertices that you want to remove.
SHIFT+G or Choose Select > Similar > Amount of Adjacent Faces
Deselect any vertices that have been selected but that you don’t want to delete (in this case, the corners) and choose Mesh > Delete > Dissolve Vertices to delete the unwanted vertices.

Mesh–>CleanUp–Limited Dissolve

Sculpting

Loop Cuts and Middle MouseWheel

Select the Object
Tab–>Edit Mode
CTRL+R (Hover over the faces and edges and position your YELLOW LINE where you want to make the cut)
DO NO TPRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON
SCROLL THE MOUSE WHEEL UP AND DOWN TO CHANGE THE LOOP CUTS INCREMENTS
one, two, three, or as many as you want. Once you have your loop cut number –> LEFT MOUSE CLICK
after the first LEFT+MOUSE CLICK you can now slide the cuts
Left Mouse click Again to apply
Left Mouse click Again to Exit

IMPORTANT:
IT WILL NOT WORK WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE TOOL TAB BAR and select the LOOP CUT From there. Recommendation: Just don’t do that, and always use the ShortCut CTRL+R

EXTRUDE = CTRL + RIGHT MOUSE CLICK

Set 3D Cursor

Shift+Right-click

Setup PBR Shader Network

Select your Principal BSDF Render Node
Click CTRL+SHIFT+T
Select your PBR Textures
Click Principled Texture Setup

GRID FILL

Closing a hole or a gap. Additional to F you can click CTRL+F –> Select Grid Fill

DELETE MATERIALS

Mirror Selection

Select –> Select Mirror (Shift+CTRL+M)

Mirror Center with no Face

Hit “B” for boundary, on/off

Show Gizmo

Numpad .

Frame Selected

SCALE UNIFORM

When you perform the SCALE operation, by pressing FIRST “ALT” and then Click “S” once. That’s it.