Blender Interface and Navigation

MMB over the long line in the interface

Set up one of the views as perspective

MMB drag to rotate the view

Continue to do this until you have front, side, top, and perspective views.

Ctrl Up Arrow makes the current view full screen.

Space Bar accesses the tools.

Delete the box:

Add a sphere:

Edit Mode

Object mode lets you move, scale, or rotate and object as a whole:

Space bar ...

Move the sphere:

Edit mode

 

Here is where you select the sub-object level:

RMB to select a face, edge, or vertex:

Transform the vertex:

The axis will appear as a line you can move along ...

After that you can move anywhere:

Render

Saving

Give it a name ...

 

Hot key reference

Hit mouse

Find viewport navigation

Move view is also known as panning

Click back arrow to close

When rotating a view, put the cursor on one of the axes lines.

Go View/Local and Orthographic to improve your rotation view

An object will now rotate around the pivot point:

In views, observe the difference between orthographic and perspective

 

Notice the red, green and blue axes lines

R = X

G = Y

B = Z (up and down)

Hit CTRL+XKEY to start with a new Blender scene. This switches you automatically to Object mode.

Here are our choices for window types

Note at the lower left corner are 2 buttons. In the largest area, the viewports, we are looking at the 3D view.

Below that, we have many more options. This is the buttons window.

 

To delete and object, spacebar ...

To add an object, spacebar ...

OK

This is where you transform a parametric object

Spacebar

Here are the basic transforms

Translate (move)

Rotate

 

Scale

Notice what happens when scale is changed from global to local

The manipulator node aligns to the box

Now change to a front view. See how the rotation manipulator node changes appearance – we only see 2 axes.

 

Make a new Scene in Blender and delete the default cube (XKEY).

Make a Mesh Plane

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