Selection doesn't need to be singular. Or rectantular. Or even lasso'd. It can be painted!
Try hitting C for "Circle Select"! Use the scrollwheel to increase/decrease selection radius, click+drag to select your stuff, and then right-click to exit the mode!
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Note that loop selections will work best with pure quad geometry. Any vertices with 5+ edges or non-quad
polygon will terminate the loop selection, making an incomplete loop.
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You can select loops in your geometry easily! Albeit with limitations...
Simply hold ALT and click an edge! (And, of course, you can hold SHIFT to continue to select more of them!) The result will depend on your current selection mode.
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Need to change where your scaling origin is or where your rotations are pivoting around?
Blender gives you a few options to change those basis points! 3D cursor is a very useful and common one as you move things around in edit mode.
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The 3D Cursor determines where any new object you add to the scene spawns! The most common way to move it around is with "Shift+S (for Snap) -> Snap Cursor to Selection", but you can also move it via the "view" toolbar in the 3D view.
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Blender can do the math! It even understands the Order of Operations! And it can do it wherever you can insert a value!
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All done setting up your Blender workspace how you like it? Don't wanna keep setting it up for each new project? Never want to delete the default cube again? Saving your startup file tells blender to load up in the same state you're currently in!
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Blender comes with various workspaces pre-configured for you! You can add your own via the "+" option at the end! (which may be recommended instead of changing the default layout). Also, this list is scrollable if your window is too small!
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Your Blender Workspace is highly customizable! Any section can be split and merged into other sections by dragging them by the corners! Any section can be changed into a different type of section as well! Make a layout that works for you!
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Beyond saving backups, you also have the option to save incremental versions of your file! Forget needing to
manually add all the "v1","v2", and "v33" versions to your filenames! Just Save an incremental version, and blender will increment
that number for you!
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A screenshot of the Blender Preferences window that shows you need to navigate to the System section, then the undo steps option is under the "Memory & Limits category"
Blender, for some reason, only starts with 32 undo steps!? Get into those settings and maximize that number to
256!
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Working on a high-resolution monitor? You can change Blender's UI scale in the settings!
I personally like 1.2x on my 32" 4k monitor.
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Switching between vertex, edge, and face mode can be a hassle. Luckily, we have easy hotkeys!
* 1 = vertex mode
* 2 = edge mode
* 3 = face mode
And they align with how they are ordered in the GUI!
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Common transformation tools (grab/rotate/scale) can be locked to various axis! Just hit the letter that you want to lock the axis to!
G,X -> Grab only on the X axis!
S,Y -> Scale only on the Y axis!
R,Z -> Rotate only around the Z axis!
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Some additional useful and easy to remember shortcuts!
* Shift+D for Duplicate!
* L for Select Linked!
* I for Inset (edit mode)! or Insert Keyframe! (object/pose mode)!
* H for Hide! (ALT+H for unhide all!)
* Shift+S for Snap!
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Many of Blender's Hotkeys can actually be pretty intuitive!
* G for Grab!
* R for Rotate!
* S for Scale!
* E for Extrude!
* X for Delete! (the close button on a window)
And then just use F3 search for operations you may be missing!
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