Blender

Blender is a great Opensource project for 3d modeling, rendering, animation tool in this document i’ll try to put some of my exploring tips that i found during testing this great tool




interface:

to start with, im using laptop which has pad mouse so i think its great solution to explain my navigation through the 3d space in the program:

first, every file has its own options so even if i made mistakes in the user preferences it will be discarded the next time i open blender

to navigate through the 3d space using blender i went for:
File -> User Preferences -> Input -> [x] Emulate 3 Button mouse blender

  • Zoomnig
    • Ctrl + Alt + drag < OR > + / - buttons
  • Pan
    • Alt + shift + drag < Or > Ctrl + numpad keys 4,8,6,2
  • rotate view
    • Use Numpad keys: 4,8,6,2


Blender Usage

of course im not master of blender but these are the highlights that i liked in the software

Selecting Object

Right click on the object

moving Shortcut key

press G in order to move objects

Properties

by selecting any object (ie: box) you can play with its parameters after opening the properties window press N when object is selected blender properties

Edit mode

in order to play with objects you can play by points its made from these are called vertices you can change from object mode to edit mode in order to manipulate the vertices of anyobject blender mode

snapping

you can snap to vertices, grid, etc.. by turning on snapping mode .. short cut Shift + tab
Demo Video

Render

of course you can output your file to an image blender render

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