Blender Most Used Shortcuts
My most used shortcuts in Blender explained on YouTube with links to the timestamps. Boost your productivity!
- middle mouse button - Rotate camera
- shift + middle mouse button - move camera
- ctrl + middle mouse button - zoom camera
- G - Grab / Move
- S - Scale
- R - Rotate
- Hold shift after G / S / R - use this for more fine control
- alt + G / S / R - reset transform
- tab - edit mode
- ctrl + tab - object interaction mode menu
- shift + A - Add menu
- numpad 1 - front side
- numpad 3 - right side
- numpad 7 - top side
- numpad 9 - flip side
- Optional Tip: other numpad numbers - rotate camera
- numpad . - focus on object
- numpad / - hide / unhide all unselected objects
- H - hide
- alt + H - unhide all
- hold ctrl - snapping while moving, rotating or scaling
- shift + tab - enable / disable snapping
- ctrl + J (multiple objects selected) - join objects
- ctrl + P (multiple objects selected) - parent to last selected object
- shift + S - open snap menu
- X / Delete - delete / open delete menu
- Z - open shading menu
- M - move to collection
- N - open / close right sidebar
- T - open / close left sidebar
- A - select all objects
- ctrl + 1 / 2 / 3 - add subdivision surface 1 / 2 / 3
- numpad 0 - Show Camera object view
- ctrl + alt + numpad 0 - camera object to viewport camera
- F12 - render image
- ctrl + F12 - render animation
- alt + shift + S (after render) - save render
- ctrl + shift + S - save blend file as ...