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    Printable Hotkey Map Guide
    Learning hot keys will help increase your speed and e ciency. This translate to less time needed to learn
    and build your creations within Blender.

    General Hot Keys Modeling Hot Keys

    LMB - select 1,2,3 in Edit Mode - vertex, edge and face select

    RMB - context menu E - extrude

    A, Alt+A - select, deselect all I - inset

    X / Delete - delete Ctrl B - bevel

    Shift A - add F - make face

    G,R,S - grab, rotate, scale J - connect vertices

    Tab - toggle edit mode G - (double tap) - edge slide

    X,Y,Z (while transforming) - constrain to axis Ctrl V - vertex menu

    Z - viewport shading menu Ctrl E - edge menu

    Ctrl S - save U - UV unwrapping menu

    T - toggle toolbar

    N - toggle sidebar

    Shift RMB - set 3D cursor

    Ctrl (Holding while transforming) - toggle snapping

    F12 - render image

    Sculpting / Painting Hot Keys Animation Hot Keys

    F - change brush size I - insert keyframe

    Shift F - change brush strength Space - play / pause animation

    Right / Left Arrow - next / previous frame

    Up / Down Arrow - next / previous keyframe

    Shift Right / Left Arrow - jump to start / end

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    Glossary of key Blender terms
    Similar to space traveling astronauts, 3D artists ( Yes I compared 3D artists to astronauts 😎 ) have
    developed a few terms along the way that are speci c to our eld.

    Polygon
    A Polygon is a 2D plane shape with a nite number of straight sides and angles, but at least three.

    Vertex
    A Vertex is a single point in 3D space with a location and the end point of edges. More than one Vertex is
    known as Vertices, you may hear this term shortened to “vert” or “verts.”

    Edge
    An Edge, simply put, is a straight line connecting two Vertices

    Face
    Not the type with eyes, a nose and a mouth. A Face in Blender is an element that de nes a part of the
    surface of an object. A Face can only have a minimum of three vertices. The three types of Face you will
    encounter are Tri , Quad and N-gon.

    • Tri aka Triangle, is a Face with only 3 edges connecting only 3 vertices.
    • Quad, think Quadruple, meaning four. You guessed it, a Face with four vertices and four edges.
    • N-gon, combining the word polygon and the mathematical symbol 'n', meaning natural numbers, to
    form N-gon. Theoretically, this could mean any Face, but in Blender and Computer Graphics in
    general, only Faces with 5 or more Edges are called N-gons.

    Mesh
    A 3D object in Blender is constructed of vertices, edges and faces. Combined together they are known as
    a Mesh, or Mesh object.

    Primitive
    A Primitive is a starting object before any modi cations, not necessarily a basic or simple object. The
    Suzanne monkey head in Blender is a Primitive object, every object in its default state is a Primitive when
    rst added into the 3d viewport.

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    Pole
    A single vertex that is the end point of three, ve or more edges is known as a Pole. If it connects to one,
    two or four edges, that vertex is NOT a pole.

    Normal
    A rather complex term, but the main thing to take away from the start, is that a Normal can be used to
    distinguish between the front and back of a Face.
    The direction perpendicular to a face is often referred to as the Normal direction.

    Transform
    The Transform (of an Object), tells you where something is (Location), what it is looking at (Rotation) and
    how big it is (Scale).

    UV
    UV is the letters designated to the coordinates of a at 2D image. 'U' being the horizontal direction of the
    image and 'V' the vertical direction. These coordinates are used to map 2D textures onto 3D objects
    through a process called UV Mapping.

    Parent / Child
    A Parent will take their Child wherever they go, A Child may wander o on their own.
    Applying this in 3D modeling, you would preferably model di erent parts of a complex model separately.
    For example, when modeling a car, model the wheels as separate objects from the main body of the car.
    Then Parenting each wheel to the car, with the car as the parent and each wheel as a child means
    wherever the car goes the wheels go to. However the wheels can be removed from the car.

    Render
    Render is the process of producing a 2D image from a 3D scene.

    Bake
    The process of computing some time-consuming calculations is known as Baking, the result can be
    stored as a le, known as a Bake. The reason we Bake is to avoid calculating over and over again.

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    Node
    A little box of tricks, a Node contains a set of calculations within, by adjusting some parameters on the
    Node we can achieve a desired output. When connected together correctly some really complex
    calculations can be achieved.

    Blender Speci c Terms

    3D Cursor
    The 3D Cursor is a point in Space represented by three small axes drawn through a red and white circle,
    that has many uses, but one important one, is that it indicates the Location, where a new object will be
    added. Users can place the 3D Cursor wherever they like.

    World Origin
    In Blender, the World is de ned as the entire 3D space. The World Origin is the point at the centre of 3D
    space, represented by the point at which the red (x), green (y) and blue (z) reference grid lines intersect and
    the grid location (x)0, (y)0 and (z)0.

    Object Origin
    The Object Origin is the point that represents where the object is in 3D space. It is represented by an
    orange dot and it appears when you select an object.

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