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| Miscellaneous Blender 3d how to items. | |||||||||
| July 9, 2020 | |||||||||
| Some short Blender 3d how to items.. | |||||||||
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| How to simply select vertices: C on the keyboard. | |||||||||
| In the 3d view, change to: Edit Mode | |||||||||
| choose (from the icon next to the edit mode button) either: | |||||||||
| vertex select ... edge select ... or face select. | |||||||||
| then (with the mouse placed within the 3d view) hit C on the keyboard. | |||||||||
| To increase or decrease the area of selection: scroll the mouse wheel. | |||||||||
| To deselect a vertex: hold down the shift key and left click on a vertex. | |||||||||
| To exit the selection mode: Click the right mouse button. | |||||||||
| Below is a view of selecting some vertices among a group of spheres: | |||||||||
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| How to create a separate collection of vertices: | |||||||||
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| After having selected a group of vertices, edges, or faces, hit: | |||||||||
| mesh >> separate >> selection | |||||||||
| This will create a new collection, in the Scene Collection. | |||||||||
| To rename the new collection: | |||||||||
| right click on the new collection, then >> ID Data >> Rename | |||||||||
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| How to delete selected vertices, edges, or faces: | |||||||||
| After having made a selection of vertices to delete: | |||||||||
| Mesh >> Delete >> Vertices | |||||||||
| Or, | |||||||||
| "X" on the keyboard >> Vertices | |||||||||
| The same applies to edges and faces. | |||||||||
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| How to select a linked, continuous mesh of vertices, edges, or faces: | |||||||||
| First, in edit mode, select a face (vertex, or edge): | |||||||||
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| then hit "ctrl + L" on the keyboard to select the continous mesh: | |||||||||
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| The initial selection of a face, vertex, or edge, | |||||||||
| will choose different connected surfaces. | |||||||||
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| How to set the toolbar's position: | |||||||||
| click on the area between the toolbar icons: | |||||||||
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| this brings up a menu to select the top or bottom position for the toolbar: | |||||||||
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| this can also allow it to be flipped back to the bottom: | |||||||||
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| How to show the normals for the faces: | |||||||||
| We must be in edit mode. | |||||||||
| Within the 3D viewport >> Overlays (icon near top) >> | |||||||||
| Viewport Overlays >> Normals (near the bottom of the menu) | |||||||||
| >> (then adjust the length of the normal's vector) | |||||||||
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| Subdivide | |||||||||
| How to add vertices to an object and split up edges: | |||||||||
| Select an object in edit mode, then select all of the vertices, edges, | |||||||||
| to which we want to add new vertices. Then: | |||||||||
| Right-click the mouse (anywhere in the viewport) >> (bring up the menu) >> | |||||||||
| >> select: Subdivide | |||||||||
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| How to change the near clipping plane in the 3d viewer: | |||||||||
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| How to get more precise with the mouse wheel zooming: | |||||||||
| ctrl + middle-click (the mouse wheel button) | |||||||||
| ... or ... | |||||||||
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| How to reset the center of rotation origin for the 3d view: | |||||||||
To reset the 3D view pivot to a more convenient point, "." on the number pad. The "Del" button. |
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