Blender Notes

Blender is a free animation software that lets you design 3D forms as well as animate them. The new release of Blender 2.80, which revamped the entire UI.

Prerequisites

• None

Installation

Go to https://www.blender.org/download/ to get the download for your OS, follow the installation instructions.

Getting Started

When you first start blender you should see a screen like this if your are in a version earlier than 2.8

Blender 2.8 should look something like the image below, although it may slightly differ since at the time of writing Blender 2.8 is still in Beta

Key Bindings and Shortcuts

Binding	Description
Left MB	Select
Right MB	Object Context Menu
Middle MB	Rotate View
Shift + Middle MB	Rotate View
Ctrl + Middle MB	Rotate View
x	Brings up delete dialog of selected item
n	Toggle 3D editors properties toolbox
t	Toggle 3D viewpoint toolboar
Ctrl + A	Apply/Set Toolbox (Scale, Rotation, etc)
Shift + D	Duplicate Object
x	Delete option box
Delete	Delete currently selected objects (no confirmation)
g (+ x, y, z)	Translate Selected Object
s (+ x, y, z)	Scale Selected Object
r (+ x, y, z)	Rotate Selected Object
Shift + A	Add Menu
m	Move selected objects to collection
Ctrl + L	Make Links to selected objects (materials, animations, etc)
Shift + L	Select All objects based on similar characteristic

Creating an Object

To create a new objects, simply go over to the upper left portion of the screen to the add toolbar. From there you can select between what type of geometry or object to add. The added object will be placed wherever the target cursor is (red and white circle). Once the object is added, a small properties bar will appear in the lower left corner to edit the properties of the object.

Associating a Material to Object